Overview
- At a Wakefield inquest, toxicology showed heroin and cocaine at levels high enough to cause death and the coroner said the death was not natural.
- Thai investigator Lt Col Pairat Khamlee said murder has not been ruled out, witness accounts do not point to drugging, and the case was never closed.
- Joshua Kershaw collapsed in the Magic Table bar, went to hospital by ambulance around 2:30am on January 13, and was found unresponsive that afternoon in Room 303 at Maxim’s Inn.
- His mother says the case has been reopened as murder or manslaughter and she shared a photo of a woman seen with him while asking the public to identify her.
- Police acknowledged an eight-day delay in notifying the family and blamed a failure to alert the British Embassy, and they described the Sukhumvit 7/1 strip as a drug hotspot where similar tourist deaths occur often.