Thread: Finnish Ex-pat Found Dead in Sattahip With Slit Throat, Wife Says He Died By Suicide

A 57-year-old Finnish expat was found dead in his bed with a cut throat and a chopping knife on his chest. His Thai wife told police the man had been ruminating about suicide for a long time due to domestic problems in his homeland.


The victim was found dead on Tuesday morning, February 28th. He lived together with his Thai wife, 49-year-old Mrs. Aranya Srisaeng, at a single-storey detached house in the Bang Saray sub-district of Sattahip district, Chonburi. His death was reported at 8:30 AM.


According to police, the Finnish expat was only clad in a pair of underpants. He suffered a deep cut to his throat, which severed his windpipe. A chopping knife was found on his chest. The foreigner’s wife was the first person who saw the body, according to her. She was crying and sitting in the room when the authorities and rescue team arrived.

According to her statements, she and her husband had lived together for five years without registering their marriage. Previously, the expat had returned and stayed in Finland for a couple of years. The man just came back about nine months ago and decided to buy a house.


On Tuesday, February 28th, 2023, according to Aranya at around 6 AM, the man woke up, and the wife made coffee and oat meal for him. The man then smoked and watched TV as usual while his wife left the house to take her relative to school.

However, when she came back, her husband was already dead in the bed with a knife on his chest, Aranya stated. The wife claimed her foreign husband had talked about taking his own life several times due to domestic issues in his homeland.


Mrs. Aranya is still being questioned by Sattahip Police. The man’s body was taken to Police General Hospital in Bangkok for autopsy. The couple’s neighbours reportedly told police that the two often argued.


The name of the Finnish man was withheld pending further investigation and contact of his embassy.


Finnish Ex-pat Found Dead in Sattahip With Slit Throat, Wife Says He Died By Suicide - The Pattaya News

Originally Posted by misskit

He suffered a deep cut to his throat, which severed his windpipe.

Very difficult to inflict that on yourself. Unless someone is a butcher by trade they don't know how much effort needs to be applied. Usually in a suicide there will be 'tentative cuts', essentially some failed first attempts. Sad.

We westerners have puzzled for decades over how impressive the butchery skills can be in these cases here.

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A fucking outrage these bestial Thai scumbags should publish on the internet a suspicious death in all its gory detail for the edification of the scrofulous Thai shitheads that infest this fucking aberration of a country.
Fucking repellent savages and a disgrace of a police force.
God, how I loathe this stinking place and its fuckwitted peasantry.

Originally Posted by Latinodancer

^ Don't hold back, etc.

I doubt that people who slit their own throats are likely to neatly place the chopping knife on their chest afterwards.

Why, what would they do with it then?

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

God, how I loathe this stinking place and its fuckwitted peasantry.

Are you back in the UK SA?

It will be interesting to see if the "missus" has a brother. If it was a self-deletion, it's a damn mean thing to do to his wife. He knew she'd be the one to find him.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

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JFC - even with the blurring that's a gruesome video!

Originally Posted by 39TG

If it was a self-deletion,

Please, are you really that naive?

Somehow doubt while one is gasping for air through the blood and everything else one would have the presence of mind or even the strength to place the chopping knife(cleaver) which has some weight to it, on the chest. I would've thought that as a suicide instrument a carving knife would be much more an option for most westerners, whereas a cleaver is often the knife of choice by thais.

Somehow doubt while one is gasping for air through the blood and everything else one would have the presence of mind or even the strength to place the chopping knife(cleaver) which has some weight to it, on the chest. I would've thought that as a suicide instrument a carving knife would be much more an option for most westerners, whereas a cleaver is often the knife of choice by thais. He at least conveniently waited for her to have an alibi first.

Relying on what's likely a second-rate translation from a third rate publication, ideal bait for the CSI experts, and forgotten in a week as another farang is either killed or tops himself.
We've gone from chopping knife to cleaver, next samurai sword followed by chainsaw as the story grows.
Other Thai media reported it either as a 'knife' or 'kitchen knife' or 'sharp kitchen knife' (obviously better than a blunt one).
As for placement of the knife, don't know what else could be expected, was he meant to clean it and put it back in the kitchen drawer?

Yes it's all bollocks . But as long as it gives sausages something to re inforce his already negative view of the "chicken heads" and tell us once again how he despises Thais and Thailand. Yet chooses to live in wongamat. Oh dear.

CSI:TD is making a right balls up of this one.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

CSI:TD is making a right balls up of this one.

quite, i'm not chipping in until the knife has been printed and we know if he's left or right handed

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^^ I concur, bad show.

Originally Posted by misskit

. The man just came back about nine months ago and decided to buy a house.

TDCSI needs confirmation of ownership and who's name it's in before we can catorgorically assume that the "BIL" did it.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

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The vast majority of the comments in that link are all pointing the finger at the wife and they're all Thai.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

The vast majority of the comments in that link are all pointing the finger at the wife and they're all Thai.

Yep, had the wife read some of the comments before posting the link and she relayed the same info.

A more detailed account here:

Police probe death of Finn near Pattaya - Thai Examiner

Of some interest is the “wife”s repetition of how the man experienced many problems in Finland which depressed him. She has said this by rote almost and is indicative of a prepared, and evidently, rehearsed account.
Potentially, yes, he could have cut his own throat but only an experienced pathologist could confirm. As previously observed, it is rare and usually attempted by the psychologically disturbed with tentative cuts present in addition to the final incision. Usually though the man is standing when he attempts the act.
The house is of a high standard, well furnished with everything well ordered and maintained - it is not indicative of a man in crisis.
Given his evident wealth, money is not an issue.
We need to hear from his family/ social network in Finland.
The woman is the prime suspect.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Of some interest is the “wife”s repetition of how the man experienced many problems in Finland which depressed him. She has said this by rote almost and is indicative of a prepared, and evidently, rehearsed account.

The bit about her "fretting" in the link above is also obviously a steaming great pile of horse shit.

I think that all this conjecture should end now.

Sorry, I mean it should finnish.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I think that all this conjecture should end now.

Sorry, I mean it should finnish.

That’s cold!

Too soon Mendy.