French expat dead by knife in chest, Phuket police deem suicide

[nasanews]

He is too old to commit suicide !

[terminatorchiangmai]

suicide note in Thai ? RIP.

[eddysmit]

18 hours ago, colinneil said:

What can you expect when they send untrained tourist police to check the scene.

Surely if a person was going to end their own life with a knife it would be wrists or neck, not chest.

 

19 hours ago, esprit said:

Another "suicide" deduced by the keystone cops yet they don't know where his wife is !!!!!

At least it's a step up from the old one 'Heart attack', or the one where the 'foreigner' is sat on the toilet/floor with a noose around his neck, called a ''Suicide", and the wife, now I wonder where she was at the time?

[ujayujay]

RIP my Friend. Luckily you can't read some stupid Comments here....

[gk10002000]

14 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

And the house goes to?

yeah, need to follow up on the house, rented, bought and paid for, etc. Check his monies, online bank accounts, if he signed over pensions, Retirement accounts, designated beneficiaries, transferred large amount of monies at the end etc.  Basic routine investigative work that will not be done by the Thai police.  Hope he has some friends or relatives that he confided in that can follow up a little bit on his finances.

[mikiea]

21 hours ago, esprit said:

Another "suicide" deduced by the keystone cops yet they don't know where his wife is !!!!!

hahaha hahaha hahahah hahha hahaha hahaha    RIP unlucky dude .

[HHTel]

How many of you actually read the full report.  His wife was in the garden.

 

"Henri was in the living room, on the computer when I went outside to talk with my friend – I was outside less than five minutes when I heard his chair shaking,” Ms Chalermsee recounted.

"The last thing I saw was Henri waving at me… I thought he wanted to go to the bathroom and I went to get his walker, and then the nurse screamed from what she saw,” she said.

 

[Redline]

Where would you get the idea to stab yourself in the chest?  He must have been screaming?  Didn't anyone hear him?  A bit skeptical about suicide via chest stabbing  RIP

[alanferdi]

On 6/15/2017 at 2:28 PM, colinneil said:

What can you expect when they send untrained tourist police to check the scene.

Surely if a person was going to end their own life with a knife it would be wrists or neck, not chest.

No in Thailand if the knife was in the aft then it would be murder..... but he used his right hand to do the wrong ting!

[lvr181]

His finger prints on the knife handle?

Edited June 16, 2017 by lvr181
Correction

[John1012]

I suppose as he was reputed to be a doctor he would have known exactly where to place a knife in his chest to avoid the ribs and directly enter the heart, and by forcing himself forward with the knife in place it would be possible, but alcohol and an overdose of sleeping /painkilling tablets would be a more painless and comfortable exit. Sounds a bit far fetched to me, does not give one much faith in the crime solving process here. Still, shit happens, so it might be possible.

Edited June 16, 2017 by John1012

[freethinker]

7 hours ago, HHTel said:

How many of you actually read the full report.  His wife was in the garden.

 

"Henri was in the living room, on the computer when I went outside to talk with my friend – I was outside less than five minutes when I heard his chair shaking,” Ms Chalermsee recounted.

"The last thing I saw was Henri waving at me… I thought he wanted to go to the bathroom and I went to get his walker, and then the nurse screamed from what she saw,” she said.

 

Well if the wife said so that's all the proof i need! Case closed. Ooooooor maybe they should check the whereabouts of the wife's gik Somchai. 

 

It may very well turn out to be a suicide but the least we could expect is some kind of police and crime scene investigation considering the unusual method of suicide. Or do you think the wife's testimony is enough? 

[balo]

23 hours ago, Chris Lawrence said:

A lot of energy needed to force a knife into the chest.

He was a doctor, he would know the easiest way for the knife to enter the chest . I believe its possible , even if it doesnt sound right. 

[Grumpy Duck]

54 minutes ago, HooHaa said:

Dont understand much about how a montetized forum works, do you?

 

Click.

Monetized or moderated?

[dfdgfdfdgs]

who kills themselves by stabbing themselves in the chest...

 

on a list of 100 ways to kill yourself that one is firmly in the bottom 5.

[swanny321]

  Is there any cultural differences when it comes to waving v pointing in LoS?

[garbolino]

On 6/15/2017 at 4:48 PM, Thechook said:

Aren't all farang deaths suicide to protect the tourist industry 

I am no expert.............this is NOT a suicide the Police here are absolutely useless and ASSUME everything...the French guys wife/lady friend murdered him for whatever reason so the B.I.B should be after her

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[gk10002000]

22 hours ago, HHTel said:

How many of you actually read the full report.  His wife was in the garden.

 

"Henri was in the living room, on the computer when I went outside to talk with my friend – I was outside less than five minutes when I heard his chair shaking,” Ms Chalermsee recounted.

"The last thing I saw was Henri waving at me… I thought he wanted to go to the bathroom and I went to get his walker, and then the nurse screamed from what she saw,” she said.

 

His wife SAID she was in the garden.  That is far from conclusive independently verified proof that she was in the garden.

[HHTel]

Verified by the nurse and 'her friend' by all accounts. Or maybe it was a conspiracy!!