A courtroom in Bangkok, Thailand, denied the bail request of the Polish tourist accused of murdering and dismembering his Ukrainian girlfriend at a high-rise rental final weekend.
South Bangkok Criminal Court denied bail to 25 yr old Jan Jerzy Lagoda-Filippow, citing that he is a flight threat since he already tried to flee the country for Cambodia as quickly as.
Lagoda-Filippow was arrested on Monday night at the Khlong Luek Border Checkpoint in Aranyapratheth district, Sa Keao province beneath suspicion of murdering and dismembering 25 yr outdated Alona Savchenko of Ukrainian nationality.
The suspect allegedly stabbed Savchenko within the chest and mutilated her body with a handsaw on the 32nd flooring of the Key Sathorn-Charoenraj rental constructing within the Bang Kho Laem district. Her head was “nearly dismembered.”
A taxi driver who picked up Lagoda-Filippow on Monday afternoon mentioned that the tourist requested him to assist finish dismembering and disposing of his girlfriend’s body via Google Translate.
The taxi driver knowledgeable the condo’s security guard of the Polish man’s unusual behaviour resulting in the discovery of Savchenko’s physique. An post-mortem reveals that Savchenko was killed at least 24 hours earlier than her body was found.
The sufferer labored as a marketing specialist for an Estonian agency. She graduated from Zaporizhzhia National University in Ukraine with a BA in English language and literature and completed a business course on the Guangdong University of Finance in China.
On the QT -Fillipow owns an advertising firm registered in London.
In an interview with Thai news platform CH3, a taxi driver revealed that the Polish man, who was arrested for allegedly murdering his Ukrainian girlfriend, “Alona,” and trying to dismember her in a Bangkok rental room, asked him to assist eliminate her physique through Google Translate.
The taxi driver mentioned that he picked up the suspect, Jan Jerzy Lagoda-Filippow, on the roadside outside a rental in the Bang Kho Laem district yesterday and communicated with him by way of Google Translate. The Polish tourist advised the taxi driver that he wished to gamble at a casino. The pair drove round however couldn’t find one.
Then, the suspect allegedly requested the driver via the app, “Can you assist me discover a cleaner?” So the driving force asked him, “What for?”
“I’m in search of a cleaning machine for a corpse,” mentioned Lagoda-Filippow. “I’m in search of liquid to clean a corpse,” he added. Then, Lagoda-Filippow allegedly stated, “Do you have a device to chop up a body?”
Confused, the taxi driver pulled over and sat down at a restaurant to speak to the suspect. The driver invited his pal Ek, a Tuk Tuk driver who speaks better English than him, to talk to the Polish man.
Lagoda-Filippow confessed, “I stabbed my spouse.” When the drivers requested him, “Why?” he responded…
“Do you might have friends? Can you help me put the body components in a bag?”
The taxi driver realised one thing was significantly wrong and dropped off the Polish man exterior a hotel on Sathorn Road. Then, he turned again to the condo to inform the safety guard, resulting in the invention of Alona’s body. In the interview, the taxi driver recalled a foul scent emanating from the Polish man’s garments.
The driver’s 47 12 months previous pal Ek informed reporters that at about 1pm, he was approached by his friend, the taxi driver.
Ek mentioned that the taxi driver knowledgeable him the Polish man had proven him a message through Google Translate which said, “Can you help find something to do away with the smell? Because I killed my girlfriend and I’m in search of someone to assist me go up there and minimize up her physique,” reports Kapook.
Both of the drivers couldn’t tell if the vacationer was telling the truth, so that they decided to tell the condominium’s security guard.
About half-hour later, the killer returned to the rental and came again downstairs before disappearing in a taxi.
CCTV final captured Alona strolling down the hall on the condo with Lagoda-Filippow at 11.52pm on Friday, May 12.
On Sunday at 12.15pm, Lagoda-Filippow was pictured walking down the corridor with a field, thought to contain the saws discovered within the room. At 12.35pm that day, the assailant was pictured taking the lift downstairs holding a large bag.
Police arrested Lagoda-Filippow on the Khlong Luek Border Checkpoint at 7.30pm yesterday as he tried to flee into Cambodia.
A Polish man allegedly murdered and dismembered his 27 yr previous Ukrainian girlfriend “Alona” inside a rental room in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. He tried to flee the country via taxi yesterday but was arrested close to the border of Cambodia in Sa Keao province last night time.
Yesterday, police from Wat Phraya Krai Police Station have been informed that the body of a Ukrainian woman was found in a apartment room in Bang Khlo subdistrict within the Bang Kho Laem district of Bangkok.
Inside room No.708 on the thirty second floor, police found 25 yr old Alona Shevchenko’s bloody, dismembered body lying on the bed. A noticed was laid across her partially dismembered body, police mentioned. Police estimated she was killed one to 2 days prior.
Police say Alona stayed together with her 25 year old boyfriend Jan Jerzy Lagoda-Filippow of Polish nationality. The couple entered Thailand as vacationers on April 29, 2023, and rented a apartment room in Bangkok together.
At noon yesterday, Lagoda-Filippow packed his luggage and ordered a taxi to the border in Sa Keao province for 1,500 baht. The taxi driver noticed that Filippow was acting suspiciously hasty and knowledgeable the safety guard at the condo.
The safety guard requested Lagoda-Filippow to wait, but he refused and insisted on leaving in the taxi. The safety guard contacted the owner of the rental unit and requested to inspect the room, discovering Alona’s physique.
At 7.30pm, soldiers and police arrested Lagoda-Filippow in front of a lodge on the Khlong Luek Border Checkpoint in Aranyapratheth district, Sa Keao province, before he attempted to cross into Poipet, Cambodia.
Police coordinated with the Polish Embassy in Bangkok to request an interpreter to help within the suspect’s interrogation.
Lagoda-Filippow was picked up by officers from the Metropolitan Police Division 5 and taken again to Bangkok to face prosecution..