Police Probe Expat Murder near Tesco Lotus
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phuketwan.com/Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison
Monday, February 23, 2009
POLICE and security guards at the scene have confirmed that a British man who worked in the property industry was killed in his home-office near the well-known Tesco-Lotus supermarket intersection on Phuket today.
Officers are treating the case as a murder, the second apparent murder of an expat on the island in the space of four days.
The man, according to reports, was killed in a three-storey shophouse block that fronts the road to Patong, just beyond the busy intersection with the Bypass Road.
The building is close to the Royal arch that crosses the road and is familiar to everyone who takes that route between Patong and Phuket City.
Police said the man was in his 60s and lived alone.
Precise circumstances of the murder have yet to be confirmed. His body was found about 9.30am, reports said, possibly by fellow workers arriving at the office.
Any connection to the death on Thursday evening in Patong of property developer Francis Alex Degioanni has yet to be established and seems unlikely.
Mr Degioanni died in a flurry of bullets fired by what seems to be a professional hitman, who strolled to the assignment just as daylight was fading.
Today's murder victim appears to have been battered to death, police say. His notebook computer and his mobile telephone are unaccounted for, presumably taken by the killer or killers.
Police believe robbery was not the motive because expensive gold jewellery was not taken.
Murders of expats on Phuket are rare. However, island police now have to deal with the unsettled reaction triggered by two expat killings between Thursday and Monday.
Phuketwan is reluctant to reveal details about the second killing until we are certain that relatives have been notified.
The apparent murder is a challenge for the newly appointed British honorary consul, Martin Carpenter, whose background ls in golf course management and public relations.
Despite reports that the case involving Mr Degioanni had been taken over by more senior police from Bangkok or Surat Thani, island police told Phuketwan today that the investigation was still in their hands.
phuketwan.com/Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison
Monday, February 23, 2009
POLICE and security guards at the scene have confirmed that a British man who worked in the property industry was killed in his home-office near the well-known Tesco-Lotus supermarket intersection on Phuket today.
Officers are treating the case as a murder, the second apparent murder of an expat on the island in the space of four days.
The man, according to reports, was killed in a three-storey shophouse block that fronts the road to Patong, just beyond the busy intersection with the Bypass Road.
The building is close to the Royal arch that crosses the road and is familiar to everyone who takes that route between Patong and Phuket City.
Police said the man was in his 60s and lived alone.
Precise circumstances of the murder have yet to be confirmed. His body was found about 9.30am, reports said, possibly by fellow workers arriving at the office.
Any connection to the death on Thursday evening in Patong of property developer Francis Alex Degioanni has yet to be established and seems unlikely.
Mr Degioanni died in a flurry of bullets fired by what seems to be a professional hitman, who strolled to the assignment just as daylight was fading.
Today's murder victim appears to have been battered to death, police say. His notebook computer and his mobile telephone are unaccounted for, presumably taken by the killer or killers.
Police believe robbery was not the motive because expensive gold jewellery was not taken.
Murders of expats on Phuket are rare. However, island police now have to deal with the unsettled reaction triggered by two expat killings between Thursday and Monday.
Phuketwan is reluctant to reveal details about the second killing until we are certain that relatives have been notified.
The apparent murder is a challenge for the newly appointed British honorary consul, Martin Carpenter, whose background ls in golf course management and public relations.
Despite reports that the case involving Mr Degioanni had been taken over by more senior police from Bangkok or Surat Thani, island police told Phuketwan today that the investigation was still in their hands.
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