Murder considered in death plunge of eldest son of "Godfather of Koh Samet"

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Murder considered in death plunge of eldest son of "Godfather of Koh Samet"

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Police have not ruled out murder in the death of a 24 year old man who was the eldest son of a businessman who owns seven resorts on the holiday island of Koh Samet.

 

Patchara Pornpattanasawai fell from a third floor area of a building in the Thonburi area of Bangkok yesterday.

 

Police in Samre district are interviewing those present at the property in Soi Charoen Nakorn, Krung Thonburi Road, Klongsan district.

 

They could not say whether he had tripped and fallen or was pushed.

 

They said many members of the same family live on the fifth floor of the property. Some were away for Chinese New Year while others were downstairs, reported Daily News.

 

Daily News added that the victim - found face up in a pool of blood - is the eldest son of Komol Pornpattanasawai who has the nickname "Jao Phor Koh Samet" where he owns a total of seven resort properties.

 

Investigations continue.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-02-19

[dahinni]

Mafia strike

[trainman34014]

Had it been a Farang it would have course been Suicide; no investigation required !

[George Bowman]

The main road on Ko Samet apparently stops here. What you see is the entrance to one of the more expensive resorts on the island. In '99 the cost for a bungalow here was less than B1000. Today that is dinner for two.

 

Edited February 19, 2018 by missoura

[dazler]

38 minutes ago, missoura said:

The main road on Ko Samet apparently stops here. What you see is the entrance to one of the more expensive resorts on the island. In '99 the cost for a bungalow here was less than B1000. Today that is dinner for two.

 

It is called inflation. 

 

But we dont want the Thais making money do we. It is not good for our superiority complex is it.

 

Samet might be a little pricey compared to other Thai places, but is still cheap by world standards. A lot of bang for buck in Thailand. 

 

Free enterprise, they can charge what they like. Nobody forces anyone to go there. 

[Get Real]

Clearly a suicide! All balcony jumps are.

[Henrik Andersen]

Meaby just he just have sex on balcony with lb 

[Just Weird]

2 hours ago, missoura said:

The main road on Ko Samet apparently stops here. What you see is the entrance to one of the more expensive resorts on the island. In '99 the cost for a bungalow here was less than B1000. Today that is dinner for two.

 

That's what can happen everywhere over two decades, nothing unusual.

[grumbleweed]

"suspected suicide" or "murder considered"

No prizes for guessing which nationality can be attributed to each

And let's not rule out "No Thai would ever jump"

[manchega]

I heard that the police are following two possible lines of enquiry,

 

one of them is the unseasonable change in temperature, they think the death may have been caused to a sudden cold spell.

 

The other possibility is a group Burmians who work in a factory near buy walked into the condo, evading security cameras and staff, also evading relatives.

 

Hard to know exactly which line is the truth?

[pattayadon]

Hell of a headline!

[realenglish1]

When a foreigner is  found dead from a balcony mishap its always ruled Suicide However when a Thai is found dead in a pool of blood like this they investigate thoroughly and say it may be murder

 

What a double standard 

[leither69]

They could not say whether he had tripped and fallen or was pushed.

 

Not something you see on a farang death report  mmm!!!

[cardinalblue]

The problem with thailand is as prices increase the quality does not proportionally....

 

thailand is great for low cost items but fails in understanding one needs to increase quality /service whe jacking up prices...

 

it aint inflation but figured out they can make a greater profit margin on high end products vs . Low  cost ones

 

Example - LH uses the same building materials for a 20MB  house that they do for 5MB home....profit margin goes way up but not quality....same with high end island resorts....

[natway09]

Nobody even noticed that little hole in the back of his head

I I betcha its a 50,000 Bht hole

[kcpattaya]

Samui 'coke island' and that is not Pepsi

[jonstarjon]

Chinese new year.. Significant! Maybe choose the wrong fortune cookie.. Can't be a Mafia hit... No Mafia in Thailand its official 4.0

[KKr]

let me make an original post on this topic, one that usually is seen on 90 % of the contributions.
may the poor guy RIP.

[zaZa9]

3 hours ago, dazler said:

It is called inflation. 

 

But we dont want the Thais making money do we. It is not good for our superiority complex is it.

 

Samet might be a little pricey compared to other Thai places, but is still cheap by world standards. A lot of bang for buck in Thailand. 

 

Free enterprise, they can charge what they like. Nobody forces anyone to go there. 

Agree.

 

But I thought it was a National Park.

I certainly paid Park Fees.

[whaleboneman]

2 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Meaby just he just have sex on balcony with lb 

how childish. a young man is dead you know.

[Shifty]

I wonder if he had medical insurance. 

[happyinthailand]

A 24 year old has died. That should at least get some sympathy for his family. RIP.

References to the cost of bungalows and comparisons to a farang investigation by the police demonstrate the green eyed monster in some of these posts.

[car720]

4 hours ago, dazler said:

It is called inflation. 

 

But we dont want the Thais making money do we. It is not good for our superiority complex is it.

 

Samet might be a little pricey compared to other Thai places, but is still cheap by world standards. A lot of bang for buck in Thailand. 

 

Free enterprise, they can charge what they like. Nobody forces anyone to go there. 

I don't know.  I used to get a lot more bang for my buck many years ago.

[farcanell]

1 hour ago, cardinalblue said:

The problem with thailand is as prices increase the quality does not proportionally....

 

thailand is great for low cost items but fails in understanding one needs to increase quality /service whe jacking up prices...

 

it aint inflation but figured out they can make a greater profit margin on high end products vs . Low  cost ones

 

Example - LH uses the same building materials for a 20MB  house that they do for 5MB home....profit margin goes way up but not quality....same with high end island resorts....

 

And.... 

 

i was talking with a rawai vendor yesterday, having mentioned a price rise in a product I was buying ( mentioned... not complained.. she offered a 20bt discount [ ? ], which I refused)... she went on to tell me that the road works at chalong circle meant less people came down to rawai, so traders had to charge more to make money

 

this is not the first time I have encountered this mindset.

Edited February 19, 2018 by farcanell

[Tom Cahill]

Two things.
ONE:
From the photo it only looks like there's five  storeys,  in which I'm including the top of the building as a storey,  so there's definitely not five floors  (which you can all see).
TWO:
Somehow they  "know"  he departed from the third floor.  I have no idea how they have confirmed this,  unless of course there's witnesses,  in which case this is:
a.  not coroborated,  therefore not a fact at all,  but a statement or hearsay pending cross examination in court;  and,

b.  would indicate that the witness---real or imagined---would have seen if he tripped and fell over the over-waist-height guard wall/rail,

therefore,  the whole story's totally riddled with strong deception indicators,  and of course the lack of any possibility of the only possible non-murder scenario is that he was wandering about on the guardrail or wall when he fell,  or,  as would be the case if he was foreign;  he committed suicide.

Total suspect as with all deaths from height in Thailand.

For the more keen researcher of the Thai jumping pandemic,  I would urge readers to look up the CIA's assassination manual from the 1960's where all agents tasked with killing people were told them to throw the body off as higher a height as possible,  to destroy totally or largely contaminate any evidence on the corpse of any prior foul play,  which was the actual cause of their death.   In this case,  as we can see,  the body hasn't shattered,  so this would indicate that suicide would be the most likely,  but we must consider,  if the building had a lift,  then it would be totally safe for a couple of killers to drag the body up to the roof to throw him off there,  as no one would use the stairs in this country should that've been the case.


 

[peterb17]

3 minutes ago, Tom Cahill said:

Two things.
ONE:
From the photo it only looks like there's five  storeys,  in which I'm including the top of the building as a storey,  so there's definitely not five floors  (which you can all see).
TWO:
Somehow they  "know"  he departed from the third floor.  I have no idea how they have confirmed this,  unless of course there's witnesses,  in which case this is:
a.  not coroborated,  therefore not a fact at all,  but a statement or hearsay pending cross examination in court;  and,

b.  would indicate that the witness---real or imagined---would have seen if he tripped and fell over the over-waist-height guard wall/rail,

therefore,  the whole story's totally riddled with strong deception indicators,  and of course the lack of any possibility of the only possible non-murder scenario is that he was wandering about on the guardrail or wall when he fell,  or,  as would be the case if he was foreign;  he committed suicide.

Total suspect as with all deaths from height in Thailand.

For the more keen researcher of the Thai jumping pandemic,  I would urge readers to look up the CIA's assassination manual from the 1960's where all agents tasked with killing people were told them to throw the body off as higher a height as possible,  to destroy totally or largely contaminate any evidence on the corpse of any prior foul play,  which was the actual cause of their death.   In this case,  as we can see,  the body hasn't shattered,  so this would indicate that suicide would be the most likely,  but we must consider,  if the building had a lift,  then it would be totally safe for a couple of killers to drag the body up to the roof to throw him off there,  as no one would use the stairs in this country should that've been the case.


 

For Heaven’ s sake - a very young man had lost his life - he could have very easily slipped and fallen to his death. 

 

What do we get on this truly fabulous forum. 

 

A discussion of hotel prices, the price of building a house ( what on earth does LH mean, the price of street food and now conspiracy theories about the CIA ( I seem to think that most members are now American.)

 

I sometimes think the lunatic has left the asylum and ended up on Thaivisa. 

[SunsetT]

2 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Samui 'coke island' and that is not Pepsi

....Should have gone to Specsavers!

[wvavin]

Farang + Balcony = Suicide. / Thai + Balcony = Murder.

[SunsetT]

28 minutes ago, peterb17 said:

so there's definitely not five floors  (which you can all see).

Yes there are....The Thais call the Ground floor the 1st Floor.  (They get everything wrong!) So in the photo the garages/carports are on the 1st Floor and there are 4 floors above = 5 floors.

 

....Maybe they found his shoes or half empty glass of whiskey, or cigar butts on the 3rd floor.

[kingkenny]

2 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Samui 'coke island' and that is not Pepsi

Fantastic snippet of information that has no relevance to a story related to Samet