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[george]

British businessman found dead in hotel

Drug cocktail indicated in demise

CHIANG MAI: -- A British businessman has been found dead in a Chiang Mai hotel room, possibly after taking drugs. This was the initial findings released by police.

Pol Capt Sa-nguan Sankam of the Muang Chiang Mai police station, accompanied by a doctor from Maharaj Nakhon Chiang Mai Hospital, found 33 year old Englishman David Harrison Laws sitting cross-legged on the floor with his head bowed.

There was no sign of a struggle and it is suspected that he had died at least two days prior. Police found a wrapper with 0.02 grams of heroin and an amphetamine tablet on the floor.

Preliminary investigations showed that Laws had travelled from Bangkok and checked in at the hotel on May 16, on business in Chiang Mai. He had informed the hotel he would stay until May 20.

The police suspect that the man had visited night entertainment outlets in Chiang Mai and bought the drugs. He possibly took two kinds of drugs at the same time, and suffered from heart failure as a result.

His body was taken to the Maharaj Nakhon Chiang Mai Hospital for the exact cause of death to be ascertained.

--Chiang Mai Mail 2004-05-29

[Goat Roper]

I was in CM a few days ago and heard about this, was the hotel Pornping Tower?

[astral]

What happened to the plastic bag and the leap off the balcony?

Sure that is the standard Suicide Procedure in LOS!!