Young UK man falls to death: Pattaya ladyboys held
Was he pushed or did he jump? Balcony incidents with foreigners falling to their death are not uncommon in Thailand. The latest case involves four ladyboys in Pattaya.
Was he pushed or did he jump? Balcony incidents with foreigners falling to their death are not uncommon in Thailand. The latest case involves four ladyboys in Pattaya.
CRIME
Four Pattaya ladyboys held after young British man falls to his death
16/12/2015
Online Reporters
Was he pushed or did he jump?
This is the question the Pattaya police have to answer in their latest "foreigner falling from a balcony" case.
Balcony incidents with foreigners falling to their death are not uncommon in Thailand (see list here).
Solving the mystery of how and why the deceased person fell often proves to be difficult and it often cannot determined to everyone's satisfaction whether the deceased person was:
1. Pushed and thus murdered,
2. Killed themselves or "committed suicide" or
3. Fell accidentally, after perhaps losing their footing, after perhaps one too many bottles of beer or after taking some drug.
FACTS OF THE CASE
Four transvestites have been detained in Pattaya as police try to determine if they pushed a 28-year-old British national named Naami Keyghobadi from his fourth-floor window, killing him.
His body was found lying face up outside the ground floor of the Dolphin House apartments (near the intersection of Third and Central roads in the Bang Lamung district city) said Pol Col Sukthat Pumpunmuang, chief of Pattaya police, who led a officers to the scene around 7.20pm last night.
The shirtless man suffered a broken leg and broken ribs with internal injuries.
He was rushed to Pattaya Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
In an apartment on the top floor of the four-storey building, police found transgender woman Patchara Chaihongsa, 33.
The older ladyboy was sweating profusely and taken for questioning, Thai media reported on Wednesday.
The officers also recovered a black bag outside the victim's room containing the foreign man's clothes and packs of medicine from Pattaya Memorial.
ARGUMENT OVER FEES ERUPTED
According to the older ladyboy, the foreigner had bought sexual services from two younger ladyboy friends, identified as "Nong Emmy'' and "Nong Piano," Ms Patchara told police.
According to older ladyboy's statement, the man took the sex workers to his room on the third floor of the apartment house where an argument over fees erupted.
HOW THE MAN FELL, ALLEGEDLY
The man then took the bag of clothes from the third floor to the fourth floor with the two transvestites running after him.
The older ladyboy said said she opened the door of the apartment to investigate the commotion, only to see the man storm in, head straight to the window and begin to climb out.
The older ladyboy claimed she and the other ladyboys tried to pull him back inside, but were unsuccessful, leading him to either fall or jump, she was not sure.
The younger pair of ladyboys quickly fled, but police found them and the other other transvestite in a second-storey room where they were taken into custody, along with the older ladyboy.
Police also recovered what was suspected to be crystal methamphetamine from the third-floor room. All four transvestites failed drug tests, police said.
Investigators were holding the suspects, saying their stories didn't match, leading them to suspect foul play.
However, authorities are not ruling out hallucinatory effects from the ya ice as a cause of the young British man's fatal plunge.
For more on this crime investigation, see Pattaya One here
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