AussiePublished : December 21, 2012 :: 13:12:40
Aussie’s Young Thai GF Makes Suicidal Leap A 20-year-old woman from Surin fell to her death from a15thfloor room in a luxury condominium in Jomtien. Her Australian boyfriend said she was drunk when they began quarreling, and she tried to hit him with a broom. Later she jumped off the balcony. PATTAYA – December 21, 2012 [PDN]; at 2:15 a.m., a report of a Thai woman falling to her death from a high rise condominium was received by Pol. Lt. Col. Thailert Leupeu, investigation officer, Pattaya police station (Dongtarn Curve sub-branch) Chonburi province.
He went to inspect the scene with the rescue officers of Sawangboribul Pattaya foundation. The incident occurred at the View Talay Jomtien beach condominium project, a 28-story building near Jomtien Beach.
At the scene, police discovered the body of a Thai woman lying in a pool of blood. She had hit the ground violently and her arms and neck were broken. She was wearing only jeans and her upper torso was naked.
She was identified as Ms. Praphaporn Pimthong, age 20, of Surin province. Police also discovered a broom near her body that had also fallen with the victim. An Australian foreigner was standing next to the body and crying as he waited for police. The foreigner did not reveal his name, and said the dead victim was his girlfriend.
The Australian boyfriend told police that his girlfriend had jumped from 15th floor balcony of room 476 where they were staying. Before her suicidal leap, he and his girlfriend had a quarrel, and then his girlfriend took a bottle of Bacardi to drink at the balcony.
Meanwhile, he was working on his computer in the room. But they began arguing again, and his girlfriend began shouting and carried the broom to hit him. Then she later jumped to her death. The police made notes to record for evidence, and then went to inspect in the boyfriend’s room in detail.
Police also questioned Mr. Niphan Boonrod, age 51, the building’s security guard. He said that he and his friends were walking in the sentry box when they heard the noise of something that had fallen from a high place. So he went to check, and found the dead body lying on the ground in a pile of blood, so he rushed to notify the police.
The police assumed that the female victim had felt hurt after quarreling with her boyfriend, so she decided to spite him by jumping off the balcony.
Police will send the corpse to perform an autopsy, and will further investigate the foreign boyfriend about the events leading to the victim’s death. Police will also inform her relatives.