Yasothon: – The hours-long noise of a crying boy, 4, prompted neighbours to investigate and find his father dead, police said.

Reacting to the emergency call, duty officer Captain Prasert Lasak of Mueang Yasothon police station checked the scene.

Prasert found Sayam Khehanan, 44, dead on his bed. And there was no evidence of break-in or physical struggle or foul play.

The preliminary report on the scene checks has established that Sayam was dead for about five hours.

The victim’s body was sent for autopsy at the provincial hospital.

Neighbours told Prasert that Sayam was a teacher at Yasothon Technical College.

Following his divorce, he lived with his son in the one-storey house, located within the Suk Samran housing estate, Mueang Yasothon.

Prasert said he found a note left possibly by the victim near the bed stating that he had to take medicines every day.

The boy kept on crying and could not shed light on how and why his father had died, he said.

Neighbours said they last saw Sayam on Saturday. He appeared to be his normal and did not act suspiciously.

For the past two days, they believed Sayam and his son might have taken a trip because the house was quiet and there was no sign of any activities.

Yesterday, they heard the boy crying non-stop for an hour and went to check on the house.

As they walked into the bedroom, they saw the crying boy holding on tightly to his father’s body.

They said they had to convince the boy to part with the body before calling police.

Prasert said he would try and contact the ex-wife and mother to take charge of her son.

Poor child. 4 years old. Hope he gets over this trauma quickly.

What a sad tragic image.

Poor child. 4 years old. Hope he gets over this trauma quickly.

Probably doubtful.

There does not appear to be much family support and a mother, who previously 'abondoned' her son, may not wish to hurry back to take custody of the boy.

Poor child. My daughter, when she was just 2 years and six months walked about fifty metres from my address to alert her Grandad (Khun Ta) when she found me on the bedroom floor having a diabetic hypo attack, and I will never know if I would have survived without her. I will never forget the event and what she did for me.