{"id":33088,"date":"2024-07-27T04:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T08:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/?p=33088"},"modified":"2024-07-27T04:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T08:07:35","slug":"british-backpacker-found-dead-on-thailands-notorious-death-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/british-backpacker-found-dead-on-thailands-notorious-death-island\/","title":{"rendered":"British backpacker found dead on Thailand&#8217;s notorious &#8216;Death Island&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a British backpacker has been found in a shallow ditch on Thailand&#8217;s notorious Koh Tao island, where several tourists have died in suspicious circumstances in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Theo Bailey, believed to be 31, joined his long-term girlfriend of 10 years Chantal Xerri, 27, for a night out with other travellers on Koh Tao last month.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were pictured revelling in the festivities with their fellow holidaymakers on the evening of March 18, before embarking on a pub crawl planned by a local sports bar.<\/p>\n<p>But Theo was tragically found dead the next afternoon in a shallow water drainage ditch outside the Rocktopus diving centre, having vanished at some point the night before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His phone is said to have been missing and police believe he had been there for several hours before he was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said today that the case &#8216;was still open&#8217; but they had not made any arrests, believing Theo&#8217;s death was an accident. They claim to be waiting for the results of a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>Theo&#8217;s body was discovered near Sairee Beach,  <a href=\"https:\/\/nhanlambangcap24h.com\/\">https:\/\/nhanlambangcap24h.com\/<\/a> the same beauty spot where Brits Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were bludgeoned to death in September 2014 &#8211; the incident which gave rise to the grim moniker Death Island.<\/p>\n<p>An FCDO spokesperson told MailOnline: &#8216;We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Thailand and are in touch with the local authorities.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>An image of Theo Bailey &#8211; a British backpacker who turned up dead in Thailand last month<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Theo Bailey, believed to be 31, joined his long-term girlfriend of 10 years Chantal Xerri, 27, for a night out with other travellers on Koh Tao last month<\/p>\n<p>Theo was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/search\/solr.aspx?q=tragically\">tragically<\/a> found dead on March 19 in a shallow water drainage ditch outside the Rocktopus diving centre on Koh Tao island, having vanished at some point the night before<\/p>\n<p>Theo&#8217;s devastated partner Chantal, who is listed as a teaching assistant working for Teaching Personnel based in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, posted several tributes online to her partner<\/p>\n<p>Theo and Chantal are pictured together in this image believed to have been taken the night he disappeared<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday night, Lieutenant Colonel Chokchai Suthimek, <a href=\"https:\/\/wideinfo.org\/?s=superintendent\">superintendent<\/a> of the Koh Tao police station said: &#8216;We believe that the tourist walked and fell into a small water channel at night. He died near the Rocktopus Dive Shop at Sairee Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The police arrived and cordoned off the scene of the incident and examined the area the next day. Forensics unit arrived and also examined the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The body was sent for a detailed examination at the forensic department at Surat Thani Hospital and reported to the British Embassy to coordinate with the tourist&#8217;s family.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a British backpacker has been found in a shallow ditch on Thailand&#8217;s notorious Koh Tao island, where several tourists have died in suspicious circumstances in recent years.\u00a0 Theo Bailey, believed to be 31, joined his long-term girlfriend of 10 years Chantal Xerri, 27, for a night out with other travellers on Koh [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[4836],"class_list":["post-33088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-nhanlambangcap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuttopavimenti.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}