Shane Warne death: Thai police say autopsy shows cricket great died of natural causes

Shane Warne’s post-mortem exhibits the cricket nice died of pure causes, Thai police say, as his household issued an announcement saying they might settle for the provide of a state memorial in Melbourne.

Thai police spokesperson Kritsana Pattanacharoen stated on Monday afternoon the post-mortem report had been acquired and it concluded Warne had a “pure dying”.

Police knowledgeable his household and the Australian embassy and can present the report back to the prosecutor to shut the case.

The Australian ambassador thanked the Thai police and the associated division for the investigation into the 52-year-old’s dying on Friday.

Warne’s dad and mom on Monday night stated the previous few days had been a “endless nightmare”.

“To search out phrases to adequately specific our disappointment is an unimaginable job for us and trying to a future with out Shane is inconceivable,” Keith and Brigitte Warne stated.

“Hopefully the mountain of pleased reminiscences all of us have will assist us deal with our ongoing grief.”

They added: “Over the previous few days Shane has been honoured, with the household being supplied a state memorial for Shane by premier Daniel Andrews, which the household have gratefully accepted.”

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Youngsters pay tribute

Warne’s son, Jackson, stated he didn’t suppose something would fill the void his father had left behind.

“I like you a lot,” he stated. “Sitting on the poker desk, strolling across the golf course, watching the Saints and consuming pizza isn't going to be the identical.”

Jackson Warne and father Shane Warne in St Kilda in Melbourne
Jackson Warne and his father, Shane Warne, in St Kilda, in Melbourne. Photograph: Sam Tabone/WireImage

His daughter Brooke stated she would endlessly cherish her closing reminiscences together with her father “laughing and joking round”.

“We had been pleased. We had been so related in so some ways and I at all times used to joke that I bought your genes and about how a lot that aggravated me,” she stated. “Effectively, now I
couldn’t be happier and prouder that I've your genes.”

Warne’s youthful daughter Summer time stated: “Our time was robbed. I need extra holidays with you, extra laughs the place your smile lights up the entire room.”

‘No suspicious circumstances’

Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, an adviser of the Royal Thai Police, stated on Monday afternoon Warne had visited Koh Samui thrice since 2017 earlier than his fourth journey final week.

From the official investigation, there have been no indicators of preventing or of belongings being stolen, Hakparn stated. There have been “no suspicious circumstances.”

He stated Warne’s physique could be taken to Bangkok on Monday evening by street after which flown to Australia on Tuesday.

‘Only a cricket fan’

Earlier on Monday, a German girl had been questioned by Thai police after she had entered the again of the ambulance transporting Warne’s physique off Koh Samui island.

Warne’s physique was on Sunday taken from Koh Samui by ferry to Surat Thani on the mainland and to an area hospital the place the official post-mortem was performed.

Warne’s physique was accompanied by his associates, in addition to the Australian ambassador to Thailand, Allan McKinnon, and Dfat officers, however they weren't with the van when it was parked on the automotive ferry, the ABC reported.

ABC video footage confirmed a blond girl accompanied by a Thai girl speaking to native immigration officers by the automotive ferry.

The pair was then escorted to the ambulance parked on the ferry the place the blond girl approached the motive force’s window holding flowers. That they had a short change earlier than he escorted her to the opposite facet of the van and allowed her to enter for lower than a minute.

Woman with flowers
Screenshot of an unidentified girl who climbed into the ambulance carrying Shane Warne’s physique after his dying on Koh Samui. Photograph: ABC Information

The girl attended the native police station on Monday morning.

Hakparn stated after an investigation, police decided the girl was “only a cricket fan”. “She was unhappy that he died right here,” he stated. “She simply needed to place down the flowers and honour him.”

The girl, who lives in Koh Samui, was not charged as a result of she was not deemed to be a menace, Hakparn stated, including the incident was a safety breach. She didn’t know Warne personally.

McKinnon, the Australian ambassador, on Monday afternoon thanked Thai police for conducting their investigation into Warne’s dying “easily and professionally”.

Warne was discovered unresponsive in his villa about 5.15pm on Friday after he didn't arrive for dinner with associates as scheduled.

One of many paramedics known as to the scene on Friday described how Warne’s associates desperately tried to revive him by making use of CPR.

The Australian cricket nice was later pronounced lifeless on the native hospital, with Bo Phut police confirming his dying shortly afterwards.

Bo Phut police station superintendent Yuttana Sirisombat has stated Warne had been struggling chest pains earlier than arriving in Thailand. He additionally had bronchial asthma and had seen a health care provider about his coronary heart.

Warne visited an area tailor earlier than his dying. Parsuram Panday stated on Monday that the ex-cricketer was “pleased and playful” when he noticed him for the primary time in two years because of the Covid pandemic.

“His physique appeared the identical, he’s a sportsman, he appeared contemporary,” Panday advised Guardian Australia.

“He was humorous. He performed stomach punching with me. He was a pleasant man. He smoked. He didn’t smoke earlier than however this time I noticed him smoking. I don’t know what occurred to him. I don’t know. He appeared sturdy. I heard it was a coronary heart assault.”

The tailor stated he was attributable to have a becoming with Warne at his villa on Saturday however would now “drop his swimsuit to the lodge”.

Final meal was Vegemite on toast

The Sporting Information chief govt, Tom Corridor, has revealed Warne’s final meal was a plate of Vegemite toast shared with a good friend on the Thailand resort the place he died hours later.

“I've dined with Shane in lots of advantageous institutions, however reasonably than pattern a few of the native Thai fare, we tuck right into a plate of Vegemite on toast,” Corridor wrote in an article on the outlet’s web site.

“Shane chomping away: ‘Geez, you may’t beat Vegemite with some butter, at all times nice wherever you're on the earth’. An Australian via and thru – this was to become his final meal.”

Warne’s dying is believed to have been brought on by a coronary heart assault.

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