Karl Slym and his wife Sally during an awards ceremony in Dubai
The British boss of Indian car giant Tata Motors has died after falling from a hotel in Bangkok.
Karl Slym, 51, was discovered at the foot of the towering Shangri-La hotel in the city’s upmarket Yannawa district yesterday morning after falling from his 22nd floor bedroom.
The executive, originally from Derby, had checked into the five-star hotel with British wife Sally on Friday and had been due to check out yesterday.
But Thai police said they were called to the hotel around 7.45am on Sunday after staff found Slym's body.
They woke up Slym's wife, who looked shocked when she was told what had happened to her husband.
Police believe Mr Slym's death may have been a suicide after they discovered a three page hand-written note in English his hotel room. They are in the process of translating it into Thai.
They also believe it would have been impossible to accidentally fall from the hotel window.
'We didn't find any sign of a struggle,' Police Lieutenant Somyot Boonyakaew, who is heading the investigation, told Reuters.
'We found a window open. The window was very small so it was not possible that he would have slipped.
SOURCE-DAILYM
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