‘It Would Be Very Dangerous’: Why Prison Officials Are Keeping Australian Suspect Away From Other Inmates
The Australian truck driver accused over the dєatᩚh of a 17-year-old Thai girl is being housed away from the general prison population after Thai authorities determined it would be too dangerous for him to mix with other inmates.
Simon Carman, 45, from Perth’s southern suburbs, remains in custody at Pattaya Remand Prison after police accused him in connection with the dєatᩚh of Tunchanok Donhomla, 17. Investigators allege he strangled the teenager before placing her body inside a suitcase and leaving it in long grass near railway tracks outside Pattaya.
Carman was arrested at Bangkok’s main international airport on Friday after police alleged he was preparing to leave Thailand on a flight bound for Australia.
He denies murder and has claimed he acted in self-defense. Police say the investigation remains ongoing.
On Thursday, prison officials told the Daily Mail that Carman has shown virtually no visible emotion since arriving behind bars, describing his demeanor as calm and unchanged despite the gravity of the allegations.
According to prison staff, he has not cried, appeared distressed, or shown any outward signs of grief for himself or the teenager whose dєatᩚh is at the center of the investigation.
At the same time, Carman appears to have been left almost entirely alone.
Officials say none of his family members have visited since his arrest, no travel arrangements have been made to see him, and no local Australian expatriates or friends have come forward to request visitation.
Instead of being placed in a standard prison cell, Carman was transferred on Tuesday from police holding cells to the hospital wing of Pattaya Remand Prison, where authorities say he is being housed as a precaution.
“He is in a ward with around five other men,” a jail commander told the Daily Mail.
“He is not sick, but we keep him there because he is a hard prisoner. This is our policy when you are a hard prisoner.”
Despite the description, prison authorities stressed Carman is not considered a danger to fellow inmates.
Instead, officials are concerned that placing a foreign suspect accused in such a high-profile case among the general prison population could put his own safety at risk.
The commander declined to reveal the specific offenses committed by the other inmates sharing the hospital ward, saying only that they were not facing serious or violent charges.
“They are in the hospital for treatment because they are sick or injured,” she explained.
Life inside Pattaya Remand Prison follows a tightly controlled routine beginning with a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call.
Inmates are given about 30 minutes to wash themselves and clean their sleeping areas before receiving a simple breakfast. At 8 a.m., prisoners assemble, often participating in the singing of Thailand’s national anthem before beginning the day’s schedule.
Family visits are permitted only on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., and some meetings last as little as ten minutes.
However, Daily Mail has learned Carman will not be eligible to receive visitors for at least another ten days. Officials also confirmed there have been no visitation requests from either Carman or any members of his family.
“Visitors must bring ID to prove they are family, or he must submit names for us to check,” the commander said.
“No visitors are coming. He has not asked, and no one has come here.”
The veteran prison official, who has spent more than a decade overseeing inmates, said Carman’s behavior has remained remarkably consistent throughout his detention.
“He does not cry, he does not look sad,” she said.
“He is normal. Just normal. Not even a little bit. Nothing. He is fine.”
While describing him as a cooperative prisoner who has caused no disciplinary issues, she said prison authorities believe housing him alongside the wider inmate population would present an unacceptable security risk.
“He is not a problem prisoner for us but he cannot be in a cell because it would be very dangerous for him if he was inside with Thai,” she said.
“It is very bad.”
If convicted, Carman could face life imprisonment or, depending on the outcome of the judicial process, one of Thailand’s most severe criminal penalties.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed it is providing Carman with consular assistance while legal proceedings continue in Thailand.
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
Dolly Parton’s Sister Breaks Silence What Really Happened - GMT - G1
Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
