Man Leads Six-Year-Old Away From Station ‘To Rape And Murder Her’

Chilling CCTV footage of the moment a six-year-old girl was led away by the hand to be raped and violently murdered has been released in Thailand.

The grainy clip, which echoes that of British toddler James Bulger being walked to his death in 1993, shows the girl, nicknamed ‘Nong Cartoon’, strolling with a stranger through the lobby of Bearing skytrain station in Bangkok ten days ago.

Her disappearance sparked a massive police hunt that ended yesterday with the discovery of her strangled and decomposing body in a deserted area near the city’s Suklhumvit Soi 501 motorway in a case that has shaken the nation.

Within hours of the grim find, detectives arrested a 32-year-old music roadie, named only as ‘Nui’, 400 miles away in the northern city of Nong Khai, following a tip-off from a member of public.

‘Cartoon’ vanished from her father’s pick-up truck where she had been sleeping while he watched the end of a folk music concert in Thailand’s capital on November 6.

Her father, Sayan Petchdon, had taken her to the show, which starred the popular band ‘Mai Thai Hui Jai Silp’, with seven friends but, when she grew sleepy, he took her to nap in the vehicle outside the venue at around 10.20pm.

After staying with her for ten minutes, he returned to watch the end of the concert which finished at 11. When he came back to the truck less than 40 minutes later she was gone.

Sayan wept uncontrollably when he was shown the girl’s white floral pants which police found near her body, according to reports. A child’s skull, believed to be hers, was also found nearby.

‘Nui’ had only last August been released from jail after serving three years and eight months for the abduction of a child under 15-years-old.

Just as the James Bulger case rocked Britain more than 20 years ago, Nong Cartoon’s abduction has left Thailand reeling from this horror story.

Bulger, aged 2 years 10 months, was caught on CCTV being led away by 10-year-old Jon Venables from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bottle, Merseyside, on February 12 1993. Venables and Robert Thompson were later tried for his abduction, torture and murder.