PHUKET: An Australian expat was found today hanging in the chicken coop near his Phuket house in what police believe was a suicide.
The man, aged 64, had told his Thai wife that he suffered from a personal illness that was causing him some pain.
The 45-year-old woman left the three-storey house on the Sarkoo-Airport road to Nai yang beach to take a young relative to school about 7am.
When she returned to the house about an hour later, she could not find her husband, said an officer from Tatchatchai Police Station.
''She went looking for him and found him hanging from a nylon cord in the chicken coop,'' the officer told Phuketwan.
The woman said that her husband had been behaving normally and gave no indication he was planning to kill himself. They had been together for 10 years, she said.
Phuketwan has seen the man's Australian passport but is withholding publication of the man's name until relatives have been informed.
People feeling depressed on Phuket are advised to talk to family or friends about their problems, or consult a doctor.
The man, aged 64, had told his Thai wife that he suffered from a personal illness that was causing him some pain.
The 45-year-old woman left the three-storey house on the Sarkoo-Airport road to Nai yang beach to take a young relative to school about 7am.
When she returned to the house about an hour later, she could not find her husband, said an officer from Tatchatchai Police Station.
''She went looking for him and found him hanging from a nylon cord in the chicken coop,'' the officer told Phuketwan.
The woman said that her husband had been behaving normally and gave no indication he was planning to kill himself. They had been together for 10 years, she said.
Phuketwan has seen the man's Australian passport but is withholding publication of the man's name until relatives have been informed.
People feeling depressed on Phuket are advised to talk to family or friends about their problems, or consult a doctor.
As usual, quickly the police 'believe' things, not disturbed by any solid facts or/and knowledge.
It becomes disturbing that police is not equipped to investigate properly first before they go public for their moment of personal fame to publish their ' case thinking'.
Posted by Kurt on June 26, 2015 15:41
Editor Comment:
Isn't it reasonable for the police, who have been to the scene, to express a view? We are grateful that police take the time to convey the results of their investigations. Photographs support the police account. There is no coronial system in Thailand. Do you really want nothing at all revealed about all deaths? Being negative about everything will inevitably lead you into darker places, Kurt. We don't want to join you there.