A unhappy case of a foreigner discovered dead on Koh Tao 17 years ago has resurfaced after a latest publish on Facebook has brought consideration to it again. But is the publish an attempt by the Facebook account to get attention and hits by capitalising off of tragedy, or are they calling to gentle suspicious circumstances within the dying of a Japanese scuba teacher on Koh Tao in 2004 the place what was ruled suicide could actually be murder?
The publish was made on a Facebook account referred to as Koh Tao Death Island that has since posted dozens of follow-up posts linking to different media protection in addition to responding harshly with anybody who disagrees with their theories on the dying of the scuba instructor and others.
The case is of a lady named Yoshie “Sharlyn” Sazawa that lived on the island for 12 years and worked as a scuba instructor earlier than her premature death. The police ruled her demise a suicide based on circumstantial proof on the time. According to the chief of the Surat Thani Provincial Police, the Koh Tao police investigated totally on the time and concluded that the Japanese girl was not murdered.
According to the official police model of what happened, the Japanese scuba instructor was a vacationer who rented a small house in Ban Mae Hat, in Moo 2 on a hill. She was found useless in her house, and a farewell letter to her family members was also present in the home. There was no evidence or indication that another person had been concerned in her demise or that it was murder. An autopsy dominated the demise to be a suicide and her household agreed that the outcomes put an finish to the investigation.
But in accordance with stories and posts on the Koh Tao Death Island page, there are inconsistencies in that account. Some declare it took days to find the Japanese woman’s body and that she was discovered outside the home, rumoured within the jungle with a severe wound. Improved say it was ruled a suicide even though there was no suicide note, apparently dismissing the one police claim to have present in the house.
Thai authorities respond by saying that the Facebook page is run by a gaggle of foreigners led by an Australian lawyer whose purpose is to stir up controversy and damage Thailand’s reputation by speculating conspiracy theories about circumstances from the previous.
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