Plot twist: Aussie couple who sought Thai girl’s help were never robbed, police say

Tourist police said last night the two Australian tourists, seen in photos that went viral crying desperately to a Bangkok woman about getting robbed, were actually fraudsters.

In a Facebook post that circulated across the web and local media yesterday, the couple, identified by police as Liam Endersby and Emma Bunner, sought help from a Thai woman at a car shop near Bangkok Bus Terminal in Taling Chan district yesterday and said they had been robbed.

“A couple came to sit in front of my shop and cried until my employees came to get me. They had been robbed. I wanted to contact the tourist police for them but they insisted they wanted to go the Australian Embassy,” Facebook user Maeji Kamolrat Ayla wrote.

At the end, the tourists got away with some cash and a free taxi ride.

“I gave them snacks and water until a taxi driver came to my shop. So he volunteered to take them to the embassy. I gave them some money. I wished them good luck,” she added.

However, tourist police told the press last night that it was unlikely the couple had been robbed as they had previously told police earlier in the month they had already lost their ATM cards and credit cards. They had also been kicked out of hotels in Kanchanaburi twice this month due to drunken rampages.

“They promised they wouldn’t cause trouble again but then we saw them in online news… which contradicts their past behavior,” Pol. Chanathep Suankaew of Kanchanaburi Tourist Police said.

Chanathep said the saga began when police got a call from a Kanchanaburi grocery shop on Jan. 4 after Liam and Emma got wasted in front of it. The police learned that they had lost their stuff and had no clue how.

On Jan. 9, police got another call from the owner of Kanchanaburi Hotel asking for help in evicting the couple because they had got drunk and disturbed other guests. The hotel asked them to leave and refunded their stay.

Kicked out of the hotel, the tourists tried to crash at the lobby of River Kwai Hotel while drunk. That was the last call police received. They threatened to arrest the tourists, so the pair said they would leave the province, Manager reported.

And that was the last police heard of them…until the viral post showed them turning up in Bangkok.

Phew. Liam and Emma, some advice: maybe lay off the booze for a little while?