Woman murdered at £4million Hyde Park mansion had planned to fly to Thailand ... trends now
A young Thai woman knifed to death at a luxury £4million mansion near Hyde Park had planned to fly to Thailand but cancelled the trip at the last minute, her cousin has revealed.
Kamonnan Thiamphanit, 27, - who was a tenant at the former Ethiopian embassy - was found dead last week shortly after neighbours heard ear piercing screams.
Her cousin Nutcha Tiempanich, 28, spoke with Ms Thiamphanit eight days before her body was found on April 8 to rubber stamp plans for her to jet back to Thai province of Ratchaburi.
But she suddenly cancelled at the last minute as she could no longer make it.
Her killer is believed to have fled the country, an inquest has heard, with police telling the hearing they have a name for the prime suspect.
Murder detectives are working on a theory that Ms Thiamphanit, known as Angela, knew her killer and had let him into the apartment in Bayswater, which she had been renting out as an AirBnB.
Kamonnan Thiamphanit, who was found stabbed to death at a £4million home near Hyde Park
Police officers at the scene after forcing entry to the house near Hyde Park at around 8.30am on April 8
According to Ms Tiempanich, Ms Thiamphanit was flying back for the Qingming festival - a Chinese celebration that honours the dead.
'We talked about the day the whole family would meet in a Chinese cemetery [for] the festival,' she told The Times.
'Angela said she was ready to book the ticket, but she could not make it. We are shocked. We did not believe the news when we heard [she had died]. It happened so suddenly. We spoke only days before she passed.'
Ms Thiamphanit had a boyfriend, her cousin said, although she 'did not say much about him'.
She said there was no sign that anything was wrong before her killing and the property manager had last visited Ratchaburi in February.
The Chinese-Hong Kong and Thai national moved to London eight years ago to study graphic design at the London College of Communication and would travel between Hong Kong and Thailand several times a year to see her
