A British father was arrested on Monday after allegedly killing a Russian man who allegedly made sexual advances to his 15-year-old daughter in Thailand with a single punch. the sun.
A 36-year-old man of Russian origin allegedly drunkenly whispered to a 15-year-old boy while the teenager and his father were attending a pool party at a villa in Pattaya city overnight from Sunday to Monday. The girl he wanted to have sex with.
Her father would never laugh, and would have given the 36-year-old a violent punch to the face as he fell to the ground first.
Police were called to the scene shortly after 3am. There they found an unconscious Russian man with blood around his head. He was rushed to the hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.
An arrest warrant was issued against a 34-year-old British man who was arrested on Monday afternoon.
The latter told investigators: “I did not believe that my blow would have led to his death. I regret my action.”
The suspect’s wife, who was not at the pool party, says her husband told her the Russian man began harassing their daughter later in the evening, despite his wife being there.
“The harassment escalated to such an extent that the person made indecent comments to our daughter. This enraged my husband, so he hit him once,” she said.
According to witnesses, the two did not know each other before the pool party.
