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Fake ‘transvestite’ nabbed for serial rape of wannabe models

Police arrest Sonthichai Yusuparp, 60, in a room in Bangkok’s Dusit district on Saturday. He was wanted for serial rape. (Photo supplied)

Police in Bangkok have arrested a 60-year-old man who allegedly pretended to be a transvestite recruiting beautiful young women for modelling jobs and raped about 100 of them.

Pol Maj Gen Theeradet Thumsuthee, investigative chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said Sonthichai Yusuparp was arrested in a room in a slum community in Dusit district on Saturday.

According to the chief, the man was wanted for rape under a warrant issued by the Criminal Court on June 27.

Sonthichai had been arrested for 14 cases of rape in 2015, when he told police he had raped at least 100 women. His victims…

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