Mystery deaths on Koh Tao: Billionaire hotel and factory owners found dead in hotel pool

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

So you're able to establish the size (and the depth maybe?) of the pool from a photo showing one small section. How astute of you.

Most  Thai  pools  are as  shallow as............

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's interesting how many people here jump to conclusions.

Do you have any information other than your wild fantasy to support your ideas?

If not then I suggest stay quiet and don't speculate why people you didn't know died? 

Well said.  It's also interesting how the usual suspects "quote" their own, inaccurate versions of what was actually reported in the OP!

[Ireland32]

2 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Accident

Case closed...

I seriously can't believe people are still going to the Island of death.

You have many Farang dive shops that support this Mob , I’ve gotten into it numerous times , why no disclosure 

[xylophone]

11 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Hundreds of thousands of people visit Koh Tao. I have talked  to my friends who stay there often and they  just laugh  at the  stupid death island nonsense. They think it's really stupid. A South London suburb is more dangerous  than Kao Tao. Even my wimpy, woke, snowflake  friends consider Koh Tao to be a friendly , fun, relaxing safe space. But what would they know? They only visit the place and live  there  for long periods  of time.  I bet most people who come up with the 'Death Island' rubbish have never been there.

I did post regarding the gruesome deaths of two British holidaymakers on the island back in 2014, but it seems to have been removed (??). 

 

The police work was extremely shoddy and unprofessional to say the least, and not only that, other "unexplained" deaths have occurred. Links to 'powerful people" were reported at the time, and the puncture marks in the back of the dead males head were never accounted for.........and two Burmese were set up for the murders, much to the disgust of those who could see these murders for what they were.

 

[jesimps]

3 hours ago, chmeatloaf said:

you are lucky enough to be staying legally in Thailand. Police we have come in contact have been extremely helpful and dedicated in their jobs and responsibility. Perhaps, the police in your home country have sowed doubts into you long before you came here.

Please Lord, let me live long enough to see one of the smug, rose-coloured specs brigade to get really turned over by the locals.

[coxo]

Yeah you would really trust any decision made by Koh Tao Police... Not.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, lucky2008 said:

Luxury hotel pool with no CCTV?

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Where did it say that there was no CCTV?

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 hour ago, The Hammer2021 said:

How did you get involved with the police? How long did you serve? Why didn't  you pay? It sounds a fascinating  story and it has obviously  coloured your view of the police here.

Oh deary deary me.

[kingstonkid]

Funny they do not mention the name of the hotel???

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Accident

Case closed...

Really?  From the OP...

"Investigations continue".

 

From the link...

"...officials will investigate the cause of death in more detail".

 

Are you reading a different report?

[chickenslegs]

10 minutes ago, ALLSEEINGEYE said:

I would be interested to hear how deep this pool was. Was it even too deep to stand up in? It looks very small from the photo. Many pools are not more than 1.4 meters. 

 

9 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Most  Thai  pools  are as  shallow as............

 

I posted earlier that the water in the op photo is about 2m deep.

The pool tiles are 10x10cm and I count 20 rows.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The police are too quick to say it was an accident.... real police would investigate

first THEN come to a conclusion. 

regards Worgeordie

Some posters are too quick to slag off the police before reading what the OP and the link actually stated about ongoing investigations!

[Pattaya Spotter]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

No Burmese around to blame???

Not available because of Covid.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

3 hours ago, Shuya said:

That pool looks so small, nearly impossible to drown. Maybe some sloppy electric work?

So you're able to establish the size (and the depth maybe?) of the pool from a photo showing one small section. How astute of you.

...not to mention his observation about the quality of the electrical work!

[cnx101]

3 hours ago, Excel said:

Totally absurd. Just ask around with the locals, read the news, do your research the RTP are amongst the most corrupt in the world. The only people that say other wise are those that work hand in glove with them in their underhand sidelines.

Or have only been here five minutes and still wearing the rose colored glasses.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Sergio said:

In a g0ddamn kiddie pool?? Are you <deleted>ting me??

Where did it say that it happened in a " goddamn kiddie pool"?

[richard_smith237]

58 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

It indicates  no one really calls it by that name. The nomenclature  is a media  construct created for purposes of sensationalisation. Non of the hundreds of thousands  of visitors  who love  the place call it that. That says it all!

 

You are quite right, that nickname has been generated by the ‘sensationalist British tabloids’... however, that does not mean their sensationalism is off track. There have been a number of questionable disappearances and deaths on Koh Tao over the years.

 

Koh Tao does have a reputation which precedes it. I advise anyone visiting Thailand to take extra caution if visiting the islands, particularly Koh Tao - it has a growing reputation which exists for reason which supersedes the media sensationalism. 

 

 

In this case: We have two very wealthy people who died in a very small swimming pool on an island with a highly questionable reputation for individual safety. Questions definitely need to be asked. 

 

This could be a simple coincidence and the deceased were electrocuted in the pool, in which case the cause must surely be known already and reported.

Or, it was a tragic accident although how two people drown in a small pool is highly suspicious. 

Or, something extremely nefarious has happened. 

 

Questions definitely need to be asked, it is deplorable that the police initially wrote off the incidence as an accident. 

 

 

 

 

[Pattaya Spotter]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He thought it was most likely that one of the pair had got into trouble in the pool while the other went into help and was unable to do so with the result that both subsequently drowned. 

 

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The were billionaires. 

 

Drowning in a pool is possible...but two people at the same time...it's not one jumped into rough ocean surf to save someone who was drowning and drowned themselves. I would check who stands to benefit most and the key may be the last past. 

[crazykopite]

Yet more mysterious deaths on what he’s become known as Death Island once again it will be viewed as an accident .

[richard_smith237]

17 minutes ago, jesimps said:

3 hours ago, chmeatloaf said:

you are lucky enough to be staying legally in Thailand. Police we have come in contact have been extremely helpful and dedicated in their jobs and responsibility. Perhaps, the police in your home country have sowed doubts into you long before you came here.

Please Lord, let me live long enough to see one of the smug, rose-coloured specs brigade to get really turned over by the locals.

 

While I don’t wish ill of anyone undeserving - I do wonder how it is possible to be so outrageously naive. 

[Chiang Mai Bill]

3 hours ago, chmeatloaf said:

you are lucky enough to be staying legally in Thailand. Police we have come in contact have been extremely helpful and dedicated in their jobs and responsibility. Perhaps, the police in your home country have sowed doubts into you long before you came here.

You obviously haven't come into contact with many Thai police!

[crazykopite]

The problem I have is if they were from Phuket why were they not in Quarantine , my GF has just recently done her 14 days quarantine as she moved from Phuket RIP to the deceased 

[Caldera]

Baht billionaires or real-money billionaires?

 

Two adults drowning in a swimming pool by accident? Rich ones, coincidentally? Just how likely is that!

[Excel]

4 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

The problem I have is if they were from Phuket why were they not in Quarantine , my GF has just recently done her 14 days quarantine as she moved from Phuket RIP to the deceased 

Guess being dead they will not be to concerned about your problem ????

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

Oh come on, if the comedy capper cops here can derive at a conclusion so quickly, it's only fair for us to do so equally so quickly, it just makes it more fun.

The thing is, the police haven't, it's only the (to use your words) "comedy caper" Thaivisa posters who are wrongly claiming that they have arrived at a final conclusion.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Did you read this - he found them - it may be wrong but indicates he just made phone calls to hospital and hotel staff.

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He alerted the hotel staff and the hospital but when they were retrieved they were already dead. 

 

No, it does not indicate that, at all, no mention is made of his making phone calls.

[Excel]

29 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Funny they do not mention the name of the hotel???

Why ? would the name have prevented them from drowning ?

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Daily News and Google Translate have it as Indian ethnicity rather than Indonesian.  

How does it matter?  And, bearing in mind your "phone calls" claim, don't suggest "accuracy"!

[THEN]

5 minutes ago, Excel said:

Why ? would the name have prevented them from drowning ?

The hotel is named on page 3.

[BernieOnTour]

3 hours ago, thequietman said:

Check the bottom of the pool for a toaster!

 

Seriously, maybe electrical fault in pool lighting for example, and both electrocuted.

 

There better be an autopsy. ????

 

That could have been also the reason,

why the son did not immediately jump into the pool,

but instead called the hotel staff:

 

Enough experience with the work quality of Southeast-Asian “electricians” ????