British Death at Koh Phangan Fullmoon Party Remains Unexplained
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:25 pm
18 November 2017
- A British coroner has described as "medieval" some aspects of the Thai police investigation into the death of a UK man after a full-moon party on Koh Phangan earlier this year.[Feburary 2017]. Sussex coroner Alan Craze made the comment at the inquest this week into the death of Andrew Apperley, whose body was found in the sea nine* days after he was last seen on the southern tourist island in February.
The local investigating officer, Pol Capt Suteep Chadakan, had given the cause of death as asphyxiation by drowning. But Mr Craze said the cause could not be definitively ascertained because of the poor information provided to him. Because of the extent to which the body had decomposed by the time British pathologists could carry out their own examination, they were unable to find a clear cause of death, the court heard.
Apperley, an Eastbourne resident who was married and had a seven-year-old daughter, was staying in a hotel on Koh Samui and took a boat to the party on Koh Phangan on Feb 12. He sent a text to his mother saying he intended to return to Samui the following day. His hotel on Phangan reported him missing four days later.
"We didn't get closure. We will probably never know what happened to Andrew," his wife Magdalena Apperley told The Independent after the inquest. "We can't rule out foul play, we can't rule out drugs, or anything else that could have happened. "The damage is done. We really hope his death can be turned into something positive...
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/genera ... estigation
*Another news source says the body was found four days later.
- A British coroner has described as "medieval" some aspects of the Thai police investigation into the death of a UK man after a full-moon party on Koh Phangan earlier this year.[Feburary 2017]. Sussex coroner Alan Craze made the comment at the inquest this week into the death of Andrew Apperley, whose body was found in the sea nine* days after he was last seen on the southern tourist island in February.
The local investigating officer, Pol Capt Suteep Chadakan, had given the cause of death as asphyxiation by drowning. But Mr Craze said the cause could not be definitively ascertained because of the poor information provided to him. Because of the extent to which the body had decomposed by the time British pathologists could carry out their own examination, they were unable to find a clear cause of death, the court heard.
Apperley, an Eastbourne resident who was married and had a seven-year-old daughter, was staying in a hotel on Koh Samui and took a boat to the party on Koh Phangan on Feb 12. He sent a text to his mother saying he intended to return to Samui the following day. His hotel on Phangan reported him missing four days later.
"We didn't get closure. We will probably never know what happened to Andrew," his wife Magdalena Apperley told The Independent after the inquest. "We can't rule out foul play, we can't rule out drugs, or anything else that could have happened. "The damage is done. We really hope his death can be turned into something positive...
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/genera ... estigation
*Another news source says the body was found four days later.
