Thread: Retired Belgian Couple Found Dead in Phuket Home

An elderly retired Belgian couple were found dead inside a house in Thalang, Phuket on the morning of September 26th, 2023 around 8:20 A.M.

The Phuket Tourist Police told the Phuket Express that they were notified from a daughter-in-law, Jongjit, 62, that a foreign couple were found dead inside a house in Pa Klok.

Police arrived at the house to find the body of a man identified only as Mr. Florent, 85. He was found hanging inside a bathroom. Mrs. Maria, 84, was found dead on a bed inside the bedroom, covered by a blanket. Both were Belgian nationals who held Retirement Visas. Their visas had just been renewed and were valid until August 16th of next year, 2024.

A letter written in the Dutch language was found inside the house although the contents were not revealed to the press. Their bodies were taken to the Vachira Phuket Hospital to find their exact cause of death.


Jongjit stated to Phuket Police that she and her husband also resided at the home but had recently left for a day to attend a funeral in Phang Nga and arrived home late on September 25th. Upon arriving home she thought the couple had already gone to bed but in the morning when they did not come for breakfast they became alarmed and her husband gained access to the room through a sliding glass window, as the bedroom door was locked. It was then they made the disturbing discovery and called police.


Thai police have not officially released a cause of death but were reviewing three possible scenarios, a double suicide, a murder suicide, or possible murder by an intruder. Thalang Police Chief Col Phisit Chuenphet is leading the investigation.


Retired Belgian Couple Found Dead in Phuket Home - The Pattaya News

Originally Posted by misskit

Thai police have not officially released a cause of death but were reviewing three possible scenarios, a double suicide, a murder suicide, or possible murder

How about an accidental death and a suicide?
Or death by natural causes and a suicide?
Or accidental death and a murder?
Or death by natural causes and a murder?

Do you live alone?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

How about an accidental death and a suicide?
Or death by natural causes and a suicide?
Or accidental death and a murder?
Or death by natural causes and a murder?

My guess would be the old woman died of natural causes, and the man did not want to go on alone.

My guess would be he did his wife, suffocated with a pillow maybe, and then killed himself.

Bridges back to Belgium burnt long ago, now with illness and money problems, and with no way to get help in this country it was time to just call it a day.

Would have thought pills a better way than hanging though. He must have been a stubbornly old school kind of chap.

Rainy day reading for TD CSI from Matichon News

eerrrrrrrr what does it say?

It's pretty obvious what's happened. The towel placed over the chair next to his Mrs chair, some Germans made a move on the blokes Mrs.

Originally Posted by spliff

eerrrrrrrr what does it say?

Not a great translation, but it appears money was involved and being disappointed at where they were.

Originally Posted by spliff

eerrrrrrrr what does it say?

Oops pag beat me to it

That's fucking sad

Sad indeed, got sold the idea of spending their golden years in Thailand with their son only to find they became his personal piggy bank staying in bumfuk nowhere.

Sounds as if they have been ripped off royally and got the bums rush from Belgium to boot. The rest is idiomatic, I guess.

I'm going with assisted suicide and suicide.

Pretty sad.

very sad indeed.

no shortage of expats here, having severed links with the home country put their misguided trust in local "contacts" and find that when it really matters they are pennyless, helpless, on their own and at the mercy of strangers in a foreign country.

little different to the soi dogs that roam around.

One wonders if they had Belgian relatives perhaps with a Thai connection that encouraged them to move to Thailand in old age or was Belgium ghastly for folks that age? Quite baffling and disturbing

It mentions a Daughter in Law (Jongjit, presumably Thai) and her Husband, presumably the deceased's Son.

Deceased at 84 and 85 years old with the DIL at 62. Son must be thereabout age-wise too.

It's probably a long story.

Originally Posted by BLD

was Belgium ghastly for folks that age?

Maritime climate similar to Ireland or Tasmania , so very high fuel bills recently and much damper colder than here.

I was there only one day last year in Brugges albeit a tourist town with prices 2 x 3 times Thailand.

If yo like lager beer and super French fries slavered in mayo it's hard to beat and hardly a hill bar the Ardennes in exterme SE.
In my very limited sampling many many moons ago the Walloon francophone ladies are slim elegant and moody, the flemish slappas pre filled with fries and up for almost anything I could manage after a skinful of delicious Ale, beer seems to be the main contraceptive in Antwerppen

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Sad indeed, got sold the idea of spending their golden years in Thailand with their son only to find they became his personal piggy bank staying in bumfuk nowhere.

^^ Indeed Dirk. That's what I read.

Originally Posted by helge

We have sent money here

Big money

He has with that money looked at a house on the lake (or one more)
We were "huntet" out of the house two times.

Hurt us a lot

We didn't expect such a twist

And since then we haven't "talked" to the family

(something like):Last time we gave him the papers

Forgot that today (with the "overlyden?) is a service that the retired can count on.

Must be like that





That's my guess

Bit difficult if you have to guess both language and writing

Improvement on my effort well done daegli Dansker

Originally Posted by david44

We were "huntet"

ah yes hunted or hounded out geJaagd , I read gesaagd