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Charles, a 27-year-old who runs his own events company in London, recalls the sun rising on one such party in Koh Phangan. “There was this English couple who were having sex in the water, which was obviously incredibly disrespectful to the locals, but everybody went nuts. One Thai guy ran in there and just started attacking the man, then about 20 others followed and beat the absolute hell out of him, to the point where he was lifeless and face down in the water. These Thai people came and drove a pick-up truck on to the beach, and then they just threw him into the back of it and drove off.
“Mainly I experienced Thai people to be very nice, but on the islands with these hordes of Westerners coming over with no interest in culture at all, things can get pretty violent.”