Russian tourist found dead in Phuket hotel with 7 stab wounds
Darawan Naknakhon


Police examine the room where the Russian was found dead.

PHUKET: -- Patong police were called to a hotel in Patong this morning (August 13) after staff found a guest dead on the bed in his room, with a bloody knife next to him and blood spattered all over the bed.

Examining the body - identified as that of a 32-year-old Russian from the Siberian city of Yakutsk - Pol Lt Col Teerasak Boonsang and forensics officers found the victim had deep gashes on both arms and seven stab wounds in the chest.

Police concluded that he committed suicide.

Friends of the victim said he checked into the hotel on July 19 and was due to check out today to fly back to Russia.

“We gathered in front of the hotel this morning to take the shuttle bus and when he didn’t show up, we asked hotel staff to check his room,” one said.

A member of the hotel staff said, “The last time we saw him was at breakfast on Monday (August 11) and there has been a ‘Do not disturb’ sign on the door since yesterday.”

Police are still collecting evidence, and have been in touch with the Russian Embassy to discuss the case. The dead man is not being named until there has been a chance for his family to be informed.

Source: http://www.thephuket...ounds-47830.php


-- Phuket News 2014-08-13

lost for words.

I found Phuket News posting photo with still visible dead body and sheets splashed in red disrespectful.

And this is truly remarkable, majesty of death should be left for family and officials , not the salivating masses.

 

Comment not directed at OP as he is just messenger.

the victim had deep gashes on both arms and seven stab wounds in the chest.

 

"Police concluded that he committed suicide."

 

Suicide?

 

 

 

 

Kathu police chief Pol Col Jeeraphat Phochanaphan said the Russian had stayed at the hotel with his transsexual partner, Mesa Phromkerd. The partner, a 38-year-old from Nakhon Si Thammarat province, was not at the scene when police arrived. 

http://bangkokpost.com/news/local/426592/russian-found-stabbed-to-death-in-phuket

"Police concluded that he committed suicide."

 

Suicide?

 

 

 

Certainly.  Why not?  I remember an incident in Pattaya, several years ago, when a weighted down body, with hands tied behind the back, was discovered in Pattaya Bay.  The police ruled that a suicide.

 

Maybe the police were right.  Sounds like something the local Don Corleone and Luca Brazzi might have been responsible for.  After all, if you mess with the Mafia, that's suicide . . .

possibly  tragic end to another love story 

The title of this thread should be changed to reflect the "sadness" of the event.  

He is only 33 and regardless of the truth of the incident, he is too young to die.

 

Let us not speculate ....

I cannot  imagine my mental state if I had to fly back to Siberia!!!!

 

Sad story.

Yakutsk.... brrrrrrrrrrrr........ The lowest temperature recorded in Yakutsk was −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F)

Moses, it is good to see you around.  I had not seen your posts for a long time but perhaps that is because I have not tuned it on the board until recently.