Foreigner hangs himself, burns house down next to final message to wife: “You have stolen everything from me”

A foreign man has set fire to his house and is then believed to have hanged himself in handcuffs after scribbling a goodbye message to his wife and her family on a wall.

The message next to the swinging body of the “40 year old man” said in English: “Are you happy now? You and your family have stolen everything from me including my daughter and my life. Now you have all exactly as you wanted.”

Police and fire services were called to the house in Soi Sattahip Sukhumvit 13 (Rungroj) in the early hours of this morning. Two kilometers down at the foot of the soi at a two rai property they saw a house on fire.

It was completely destroyed along with a vehicle and a motorcycle.

At a ten meter tall water tower some three meters from the house they found the body of a man swinging from a nylon cord attached to a roof. He was handcuffed with his hands behind his back. His tongue was sticking out of his mouth.

He had jumped off a water container.

His goodbye message was on the wall of the tower. He is not known as all documents in the house were consumed in the fire said Daily News. Police are trying to ascertain who he was by finding his friends.

He was believed to be aged about 40.

Daily News said that he had contacted his wife on Line showing her a picture of him setting fire to the house.

Thai Visa / Daily News

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