A 24-year-old Thai, charged over the rape and murder of a 27-year-old female German tourist on Chon Buri’s Koh Si Chang, was brought by police on Tuesday to re-enact a horrific crime that has shaken public morale on the popular island.

A 34-year-old Thai construction worker has contacted police to offer to surrender within two days to face the accusation that he had lured a 29-year-old New Zealand woman and raped her at an under-renovation building opposite Wat Rajabophit in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district early on Saturday.