Another dead tourist found floating at Koh Tao: Police fly body out for autopsy in Bangkok

[frank83628]

not really, you've been to tao as you say so would have seen for yourself how people behave when there are lax laws, no limits to alcohol, add to that what you can find in pharmacies even 1/500.000 would be remarkable.

[JohnDyson]

2 hours ago, jimmynewbie said:

There are far more visiting bkk or pattaya, the death rate on death island is very high

Not really. 1 or 2 deaths a year per 100,000 visitors is not high.

 

 

[jimmynewbie]

2 hours ago, frank83628 said:

not really, you've been to tao as you say so would have seen for yourself how people behave when there are lax laws, no limits to alcohol, add to that what you can find in pharmacies even 1/500.000 would be remarkable.

I went before the murders ,  only one overpriced 7 11 (we used to use the thai supermarket on left just out of sairee bay as much cheaper ) no where near as many bars and hotels. In fact it was boring listening to divers prattle on.

It was well known even then about the mafia families on the island (3 but only 2 active as i think is the same now)

The police station was a box

The government pumped money into the place and produced death island....

He has left the place now but a friend had a longtail boat there and told me about the mafia etc...

 

 

 

 

[JohnDyson]

13 minutes ago, jimmynewbie said:

Compared to china not many at all in Luxembourg 

Koh tao has had 15 in 6 years and that's not including the canadian lady hit by drunk longtail driver, chinese man drowned, latest death which by the way went very quiet quickly not to mention the thais and burmese that have died in this time.o

Have you even been to death island? do you know how tiny it is?

Phi Phi is small too. Thai mafia are everywhere. You would have to avoid the whole country if worried about crime. Farangs get killed for 50,000 baht or less all over. Often killed by family members.

[hobz]

18 minutes ago, jimmynewbie said:

I went before the murders ,  only one overpriced 7 11 (we used to use the thai supermarket on left just out of sairee bay as much cheaper ) no where near as many bars and hotels. In fact it was boring listening to divers prattle on.

It was well known even then about the mafia families on the island (3 but only 2 active as i think is the same now)

The police station was a box

The government pumped money into the place and produced death island....

He has left the place now but a friend had a longtail boat there and told me about the mafia etc...

 

 

 

 

Usually mafia controlled places means that 'civilians' go unharmed. The mafia is in it for money, killing civilians is bad for business. 

 

When Hells Angels has a clubhouse somewhere that area usually has zero crime.....

[metisdead]

Some off topic trolling posts and the replies have been removed. 

[jimmynewbie]

10 hours ago, hobz said:

Usually mafia controlled places means that 'civilians' go unharmed. The mafia is in it for money, killing civilians is bad for business. 

 

When Hells Angels has a clubhouse somewhere that area usually has zero crime.....

You would think so wouldnt you but the thai mafia are no italian gang lol

Mickey mouse mafia

I knew the main family on koh phangan when i lived there, the police were scared of them. There was of course a lot of crime.

Thailand has a gun murder rate as high as USA and its mafia run......

 

 

Edited October 17, 2018 by jimmynewbie

[jimmynewbie]

10 hours ago, JohnDyson said:

Phi Phi is small too. Thai mafia are everywhere. You would have to avoid the whole country if worried about crime. Farangs get killed for 50,000 baht or less all over. Often killed by family members.

Yes and Phi Phi does not have as many murders or cover ups......

[frank83628]

8 minutes ago, jimmynewbie said:

You would think so wouldnt you but the thai mafia are no italian gang lol

Mickey mouse mafia

I knew the main family on koh phangan when i lived there, the police were scared of them. There was of course a lot of crime.

Thailand has a gun murder rate as high as USA and its mafia run......

 

 

micky mouse mafia...that are above all laws, Thai Gov, Thai police, Thai Army, uk police, worth billions.....something doesnt add up!!

[hobz]

1 hour ago, jimmynewbie said:

You would think so wouldnt you but the thai mafia are no italian gang lol

Mickey mouse mafia

I knew the main family on koh phangan when i lived there, the police were scared of them. There was of course a lot of crime.

Thailand has a gun murder rate as high as USA and its mafia run......

 

 

Yeah, another way to look at it is that Italian mafia have some fear for the government and the public. They known if they mess up too much that people will start demanding to get rid of them and the government actually has some competence and can seriously hurt them.. but in Thailand it seems as if they have no fear of the government,, they know that the government is completely corrupt and incompetent so they have nothing to fear.. good point 

[NoMeAmes]

Foreign embassies need to publish a serious warning to their people to not visit Koh Tao. Thailand has many other beautiful islands. Let's see what the local authorities would do then when the number of tourist arrivals drop drastically and locals who depend on tourism for a living suddenly don't get money. Maybe they will fly to China to tell the chinese to come to Koh Tao. 

[dorchester]

What is the body count now ?

[bannork]

1 hour ago, dorchester said:

What is the body count now ?

Very low compared to the number of deaths from motorbike accidents everywhere in Thailand.

[Peterphuket]

Today, October 21, I read in a dutch newspaper, there is missing a dutch guy, last seen on monday 15 october, his girlfriend get a Whatsapp on that day, local time Thailand 20:52hrs.

Why o why, I don't see anything on TV??

[frank83628]

6 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

Today, October 21, I read in a dutch newspaper, there is missing a dutch guy, last seen on monday 15 october, his girlfriend get a Whatsapp on that day, local time Thailand 20:52hrs.

Why o why, I don't see anything on TV??

the guy has been found in Pattaya...never went any further south than that..

 

unlucky for the few idiots that started straight up blaming tao

[Jai Dee]

On 10/21/2018 at 10:00 AM, Peterphuket said:

Today, October 21, I read in a dutch newspaper, there is missing a dutch guy, last seen on monday 15 october, his girlfriend get a Whatsapp on that day, local time Thailand 20:52hrs.

Why o why, I don't see anything on TV??

The story has been published in the Pattaya News Forum - see here.

[Peterphuket]

They found the guy already, at live, he was moving to another island!! Alive.

[Peterphuket]

20 hours ago, frank83628 said:

the guy has been found in Pattaya...never went any further south than that..

 

unlucky for the few idiots that started straight up blaming tao

But the Dutch guy stupid so too, he don't give any report/message for 4 days, he was removing from Ko Tao.

[dabhand]

18 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

But the Dutch guy stupid so too, he don't give any report/message for 4 days, he was removing from Ko Tao.

It might help if you read the news report. You will see that he never went anywhere near Koh Tao, or any other island. Only visited Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Pattaya, where he was located.

 

So no 'removing from Ko Tao' or 'moving to another island'.

[frank83628]

On 10/21/2018 at 9:47 AM, bannork said:

Jimmy newbie should watch his weight, he's been forced to eat a lot of humble pie lately 

An American guys body found on the beach in Koh Lanta today.....not even a peep from anyone here about it...not a peep about the body found in Phuket same day as this guy on Tao either.....yet this thread has thousands of views and 12 pages of comments..just goes to prove the bias against tao!!

[JLCrab]

To the above: Because when someone drowns in Thailand other than at Koh Tao, then he/she has drowned and nobody is there to suggest that, even though it looks like they drowned, the death was really the result of foul-play.

[The Teacher]

On 10/21/2018 at 8:38 AM, dorchester said:

What is the body count now ?

Too high what ever it is 

[Kieran00001]

1 hour ago, The Teacher said:

Too high what ever it is 

 

Its 5 deaths that involve some sort of suspicion, nothing unusual in Thailand.

[moose7117]

52 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

Its 5 deaths that involve some sort of suspicion, nothing unusual in Thailand.

that depends on what you class as suspicious.

obviously all the cases of "Suicide" are not included.

[Kieran00001]

5 minutes ago, moose7117 said:

that depends on what you class as suspicious.

obviously all the cases of "Suicide" are not included.

 

It includes the couple of suicides that are somewhat suspicious.

[moose7117]

so far Luke miller, Christna Annersly, Unnamed Frenchman, D Miller H Witheridge, J Louet, Dissapeared from Koh Tao, these are the ones i could find with a two minute google search, not to mention the chinese guy that drowned, the bird that got run over by a boat.  god knows how many locals.

 

please don't defend the place as it was once a lovely island that has descended into a s%$thole.

[dirtybirty]

There the ones doing it thats why

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[dirtybirty]

Its a place I always wanted to go but not now.  My Thai wife told me never go there and when I asked why she say "because of who own it". Whoever does own it, or who lives there now, surely must be as worried as anybody I would think.

There the ones doing it thats why your thai wife is correct

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[dirtybirty]

Easy turn the place back into a prison island as it was before and leave all the native thais on it. After all there the offspring of the crims that lived on it before

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[robsamui]

On 10/23/2018 at 12:32 PM, moose7117 said:

so far Luke miller, Christna Annersly, Unnamed Frenchman, D Miller H Witheridge, J Louet, Dissapeared from Koh Tao, these are the ones i could find with a two minute google search, not to mention the chinese guy that drowned, the bird that got run over by a boat.  god knows how many locals.

 

please don't defend the place as it was once a lovely island that has descended into a s%$thole.

1. Elise Dallemange fled from a fire then disappeared. Eventually found 'hanged' after Samui Times investigation. April 27 2017
2. Valentina Novozhenova reported missing - still no sign of her. Feb 15th 2017
Luke Miller found dead in swimming pool but with inexplicable injuries. January 2016
3. Dimitry Povse "committed suicide" but with hands tied behind his back. January 2015
4. Christina Annersley died from a seeming "overdose of antibiotics"(!), but with no post mortem also January 2015

5. Hanspeter Suter, police stated he was depressed and had no money – then he rented scuba gear and was found drowned 2 weeks later with no scuba gear. November 2014
6. Hannah Witheridge and David Miller - dual murder and rape September 2014
7. Nick Pearson disappeared after a night out with his family - found dead out at sea by a scuba diver the next day, "killed by a fall". January 2014

8. Koh Tao resident, French dive instructor Jean-Francois Louet, disappeared on his way back to Koh Tao and has not been seen since. December 2018.

 

Edited December 6, 2018 by robsamui