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The boyfriend of a murdered property manager has revealed he received messages from the man believed to have killed her at a £4million mansion near Hyde Park.
Kamonnan Thiamphanit, who was a tenant at the former Ethiopian embassy in Stanhope Place, Bayswater, was found stabbed to death on Monday, April 8 just hours after neighbours heard ear piercing screams.
Her body was found by police officers after they were contacted by friends of the 27-year-old on Sunday but only attended the scene more than 13 hours later.
At an inquest into her death last month, it was revealed police have a name for the prime suspect and believe he has left the country.
However, her boyfriend Chris Zeng, 27, believes that police missed a crucial opportunity to apprehend the suspect while he was still in the UK, The Times has reported.
Zeng, who is a Chinese citizen based in Singapore, claims to have messaged the man that killed Thiamphanit just hours after she went missing and, when he tried to arrange a meeting with them, police declined to investigate.
Kamonnan Thiamphanit, 27, who was found stabbed to death at a home near Hyde Park
Police pictured at the scene on April 9, after Thiamphanit's body was found inside the property the day before
Thiamphanit's family suspect that she was killed by an unknown man who messaged her on the property rental app AirBnB on the Friday before her body was found.
Thiamphanit reportedly rented out several properties across Soho as AirBnBs for 12 years and had recently singing a two year lease for the Stanhope Place property for the same purpose.
The unknown man messaged her using the AirBnB app on the Friday before her death and offered her around £30,000 to stay at the flat for a month, according to The Times.
She told her boyfriend, who was living in Singapore, having dated long distance for two years, and her mother Fiona Fu about the offer.
Zeng told The Times: 'She called me that [morning] extremely happy, because she had been worried after signing an expensive lease for two years, and now she was going to make around £30,000 instantly.
'She told me we could use this money to start her dream of owning her own hotel. I called her.
'[She said] he agreed to take it and immediately moved in. He told her the payment would be transferred that evening.'
Zeng claims the man had requested to visit the property before paying and arrived later that night after flying there 'directly in his private plane'.
The 'chilling' messages that Thiamphanit's Chris Zeng, 27, sent in the hours after she went missing. He believes they are from the man that killed Thiamphanit
Thiamphanit is then believed to have gone to a house party in East London, bringing with her passport and extra clothes as she planned to stay at a hotel, Zeng said.
But she left at 4am the next day, telling her friends that she received an urgent text message before booking an Uber home.
At this point, Zeng said he was still in contact with her. Thiamphanit told him she was tired and shortly after Zeng sent her three texts that went unread.
Police believe that Thiamphanit was attacked 'at some point after' 6.15am on April 6 and sustained a number of stab injuries.
After not hearing from her for a few hours, Zeng texted his girlfriend again at 4pm on the Saturday, referring to her in Chinese as 'Meow Meow' and asking if her phone had run out of battery or if she was 'in any danger'.
Zeng sent another string of messages, this time to Thiamphanit's Airbnb account, in the early hours of Sunday morning, writing again in Chinese: 'Meow meow, what’s going wrong? If you’re in danger, I’ll have someone check the house.'
He also used a coded message, 'Would you like a drink from Little Sure Tea? Grape or something', which they had established if either one of them was in danger.
Zeng was then sent a 'chilling' message from the man he believes killed Thiamphanit, with the person using her account messaging him in English: 'Everything is fine, I just changed my phone and couldn’t talk here well.
'I will try to download we chat now on the new phone. The house us (sic) booked. Someone rented it for a month. I lost all my WhatsApp contacts so im (sic) trying to recover it now.'
A few minutes later the person added: 'But just give me privacy..I need my time. The house was rented for a month. I’m going to Paris.'
This map shows the street where Ms Thiamphanit was staying. It is located just off Bayswater Road, which is opposite Hyde Park in London
Police officers at the scene after forcing entry to the house near Hyde Park at around 8.30am on April 8
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