Pattaya, January 1, 2012[PDN]; at 4.20 a.m. Pol. Lt. Col. Prasit Munsri, investigating officer Pattaya police station, Chonburi province was notified that a foreign tourist had fallen from a hotel room on the 5th floor of Thong Thai hotel located in Soi Virose, second road-Pratamnak, south Pattaya, Moo 10 Tambon Nong Preu, Amphur Banglamung, Chonburi province, and was severely injured, police rushed to investigate with the team and the rescue officer from Sawangboribul Pattaya Foundation and doctor from Pattaya Memorial hospital attended.
When they arrived at the incident there were many people watching at the entrance of the hotel, on investigation police found the injured man, Mr. Paul Andrew Porer age 37, Australian national, lying still and breathing softly with injuries to his head from the fall, the rescue officer and the doctor from Pattaya Memorial hospital performed a heart pump to assist the injured man and rushed him to Pattaya Memorial hospital but he died on the way.

Ms. Nid (alias) age 23, the girl friend of the dead man said that the deceased had traveled from his hometown in Australia to celebrate the new year with her in Pattaya and stayed in hotel room number 517 on the 5th floor. Before the incident occurred, they went to the Pattaya countdown fair 2012 and then went on to a pub to celebrate for the new year, her husband got severely drunk and then they came back to the hotel room, she took a shower and went to bed, but her husband stood to smoke a cigarette near the window when she was almost asleep she heard the voice of her husband and saw that he had fallen from the window and crashed to the concrete ground floor so she shouted for assistance.
Ms. Nid said, crying, that the cause was an accident, her husband fell from the window by himself and she didn’t think that he would die on the first day of the year 2012.
Initially, the police inspected their room but didn’t find any unusual traces and believed that the deceased fell down from the window by himself. However, the officer had made a report of the incident and questioned his wife and sent the corpse for an autopsy before informing his relatives and the Australian embassy.
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