Where did this information come from, hopefully you guys have reliable sources... Can anyone actually prove that this information is correct, because what we have been advised it is NOT!!!!!!!

Editor: As the report says, the information comes from the chief of police in Patong. Other sources have provided similar accounts of what transpired. If you have serious doubts about the circumstances in which the tourist died, you should raise them with the Australian embassy immediately. (Bangkok 02 3446300)

Posted by Angry Relative on October 19, 2009 09:48

it's about time other aussies and tourists found out the truth about so many unexplained deaths in phuket. I guarantee you that these disgracefull individuals who took my friend's life have killed the wrong person this time. we his friends will not let this rest.

Posted by Anonymous on October 21, 2009 08:45

I totally agree with 'Angry Relative'! The thing I have read on this website is total lies!! I have raised everything possible with the Australian Foreign Affairs & Trade ... hell I have spoken to the case officer himself and told him personally that this investigation is not being done properly. I actually filled the case officer in on information that was NOT in the Thai police report. So you tell me who is doing the right thing?!?!? I am, to be blunt, disgusted with what I have read. It is not true ... so how about we print the truth??

Editor: For reasons of privacy, the Australian embassy provides no information beyond basic details. Anonymous readers say there are unreported aspects to this story. So far, nobody has been prepared to identify themselves and speak on the record. The only account we have is the one provided by police and supported by the security camera footage. It may be that embassy staff are pursuing the matter. But we can only report what we are told.

Posted by Rob on October 30, 2009 17:14

To Editor, regarding your response to 'Rob' above.

Have you thought of perhaps doing some investigation of your own? All because the official sources wont give you information doesn't mean that it's not out there.

Try contacting the wife, or the bar at which the man was drinking BEFORE he was found dead... just a thought!

Editor: We are prepared to talk to anyone who want to speak to us, on the record, and we will report the results of the forensic tests, if they are made available to us.

Posted by Craig on October 30, 2009 18:35

Can I ask has anyone from the police mentioned the gentlemen was robbed of practically everything? Jewellery and money all gone bar his watch. This was told to the Thai police yet there is no mention of it. Could there be a cover up here?? There are too many questions with no answers ....

Posted by Rob on November 1, 2009 06:17

I think its time to send a real Sherlock holmes to phuket! These deaths are becoming far too numerous, and a lot of families are suffering.

Posted by elizabeth on November 1, 2009 21:38

It's been a little over 12months when one of the best blokes I will ever know was murdered in Phuket / Patong. I say murdered because he was found deceased in a strange motel / guest house with all his jewellery and money stolen.

Along with this the autopsy report shows there was a heavy sedative in his system. Now you don't need to be Einstein to work out some low life has spiked his drink at the Aussie Bar, waited fir the drug to start taking effect before moving in and taking him to this motel / guest house where they robbed him and left him to die!

What I want to know is what the hell is being done to catch these oxygen thieves??? What are the police over there doing or have they closed the case???

Questions have to be answered here!!! My friend's murder cannot not be swept under the carpet!!!

Posted by Rob on November 3, 2010 05:55

The unknown male that you refer to was my father and always will be. He was MURDERED and the Thai Police are aware of this but are not willing to pursue the fact he was drugged as there argument is "maybe he took himself". We have produced medical documents supporting my father was of good health and that he never once was found to abuse substances. It is almost 2 years since i lost my best friend and father and no person in Thailand has the time or care to find out why oxygen theives took the best person ive ever known. As for this newsletter, People need to get there facts straight. My father was not assisted by a Tuk Tuk driver and Thai women he was dragged into that room drugged against him will. So you answer me this, If its not murder what is it when people drug you robb you and leave you to die?

Disgusted in The law in Thailand.

Posted by Son of Victim on October 6, 2011 04:43

He died extremely suspiciously in a cheap guesthouse room with a pair of hookers and his wife didn't think anything criminal happened? You couldn't make this up.

Posted by Greg on October 6, 2011 13:21

R.I.P. Steve Jobs...

Posted by Mario on October 6, 2011 13:27

Our evidence is with the Thai Police. They refuse to make comment on the fact they have CCTV of my father being dragged into that hotel. They refuse to find the offenders seen in CCTV Footage. And as for the Australian embassy they are enquiring but Thai police are un co operative. As for Thai Police how about when they made my grief-stricken mother sign a Thai text statement that my mother had no idea what was written. Our family was informed if we did not co operate our fathers remains would not be released. And I am pursuing this in a public arena I have contacted A Current Affair Australia regarding this issue.

Posted by Son of Victim on October 18, 2011 06:10

Er... Editor... To be frank, since the anonymous writer signs himself "Son of Victim", and you know the victim's name, a monkey pressing buttons on Google.com would be able to find out the name of his son. I take it you're an editor, and not an investigative reporter, which is probably a good thing.

Posted by Nic Cage on October 18, 2011 11:02