The body of John Flint David.Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
Phnom Penh Post
A BRITISH professor working at Pannasatra University’s Battambang campus died on Monday from suspected alcohol poisoning, police said yesterday.
John Flint David, aged 50, was an English-language professor at the university and died at about 7:00pm on Monday night at the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, said Cheth Vanny, Battambang Provincial Police deputy chief.
“He died from an overdose of drinking Yinsin bottled wine,” Cheth Vanny told the Post yesterday by telephone.
David had been married to a Cambodian 28-year-old woman in Battambang province. His wife told police that her husband was a regular wine drinker, and always drank four to five glasses of Yinsin wine every night when he finished his English teaching and returned home.
The doctor’s report concluded that the British national died from excess consumption of alcohol.
The report said the level of alcohol in his system was very high and that he had died due to alcohol poisoning, Cheth Vanny said.
A BRITISH professor working at Pannasatra University’s Battambang campus died on Monday from suspected alcohol poisoning, police said yesterday.
John Flint David, aged 50, was an English-language professor at the university and died at about 7:00pm on Monday night at the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, said Cheth Vanny, Battambang Provincial Police deputy chief.
“He died from an overdose of drinking Yinsin bottled wine,” Cheth Vanny told the Post yesterday by telephone.
David had been married to a Cambodian 28-year-old woman in Battambang province. His wife told police that her husband was a regular wine drinker, and always drank four to five glasses of Yinsin wine every night when he finished his English teaching and returned home.
The doctor’s report concluded that the British national died from excess consumption of alcohol.
The report said the level of alcohol in his system was very high and that he had died due to alcohol poisoning, Cheth Vanny said.
17 comments:
Hmmm...I smell fish. The autopsy is need; Where it will be done also critical.
In cambodia people selling lots of fake products...I usually bring stuffs along like: Shampoo, Lottion, Mouth wash when visiting cambodia!
Conacq, Whishky, Red wine, White wine are usually fake products...
Someone put poision and try to robb this professor...
Many in Cambodia died from drinking home-made alcohol where the wine-maker put excessive of poison, like rate poison, insecticide etc, to make the wine stronger.
It is unfortunate if this prof. died of accidental poisoning, but I sense foul play. He might be deliberately poisoned in a robbery or in a revenge attack, may by his wife or students whom he might have failed.
Firstly where did this picture come from? The face does not look like John. Will there be an autopsy, alcohol poisoning seems a 'lax' diagnosis
22 September 2011 8:09 AM, The picture was taken from DAP News website. I had put a link to that site in the article so people can read the Khmer text and the picture for themselves.
I believed this professor had an affair-jealousy from his own student...They poisoned him to death and robbed...
well that is john in the picture.he had no affair yes they do add rat poison but his death was too sudden for this.he loved his wife and his work we will see when we get more information doctors said his kidneys couldnt cope brother S
I belive he was killed. He only had
two drinks thus more likely to be
poison.
He sent me a strange email on that day he said that his wife was digging up the bones of her father to wash then and then replace then in the grave.
Is this a custom in Cambodia?
or does it have a darker meaning?
Maybe we never know. Shame. He was
a really great guy. I will miss him.
jimmy
It is to hope that there will further investigation on his body
it is to hope that there wil be further investigation on his body
the university should be able to ask for further investigation
my uncle john, i wish you were still here in england like all the christmas times you used to show me all the fighting moves you could do. you were so kind and laid back and i could always tell you anything that i couldnt tell nan or mum. I am so angry now i know what was really going on out there, all those parasitic scumbag cambodians kept begging off you and cause you said no after keeping them going with food and money for so long the scumbags thought theyd just finish you off. Do they think you were f*&$%^g stupid ?? as if you eat 100 chickens in the night when you had a drink!!! the theiving assholes stole them, and probably sold them for who knows what. If i ever get the chance i will come to where you were staying and burn every one of them. we all know the truth i cant believe your body isnt coming back, i wish i had the money to bring it back and bury you away from those so called family and friends. love always , your nephew.
Strange was sitting by the lake the
other night and i thought i heard John calling me. That shy quiet voice. If so he didn't sound unhappy.
Maybe wanted to reassure me. So i was suffering. Who knows. It was a
strange moment.
jimmy
John was too good for this world. I have been thinking a lot about the many years we were together. All the travelling we did to to far away places. The visits to his family in England every christmas. The cooking of nice meals which he loved. All those nice memories I can not share with him anymore. Too sad.
M.
Jimmy at 1:41 AM, There is nothing sinister about this Khmer tradition of digging up loved ones' remains to give them a proper Khmer traditional ceremony for the dead. This is a respect to our loved ones. Sometimes when our loved ones died we did not have enough money to give them a proper burial rite or ceremony, so in Khmer custom when we have enough money we often dig up their remains and give them a decent and proper ceremony to honor the dead.
I think most of the speculations about intentional poisoning of John made in this forum are just unsubstantiated speculations. He probably died from home-made alcohol poisoning due to excessive adding of rat poison or other poison. In Cambodia, many people had died from home-made alcohol because the brewers had put to much rat poison in order to make the alcohol stronger. I suggest people not drink home-made alcohol or alcohol that's been opened already because they may have been mixed with poison to make the alcohol stronger. Just drink from unopened bottle only.
I spoke with the mother and i now belive the family had nothing to do with this. She belives it to be a normal death.
the wine could have had pesticide in it of course. But i suppose that a risk you take when you drink this stuff.
we all hope John has a peaceful journey to whereever the dead go.
goodbye old friend
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