Welsh hospital heartlessly kills Englishman

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KILLED BY A SCORPION

British dad bitten in the Thai jungle

By Richard Smith

 

The Daily Mirror is English. Maybe that explains why they run fantasy instead of news? Stupid story du jour. Jeez.

 

 

Father-of-three Gareth Pike, 56, tried to suck the poison from the wound on his thumb. But he fell ill with a fever.

 

The retired businessman was treated in a Thai hospital but when he failed to get better, he returned to the UK.

 

AdvertisementGareth, of Barry, South Glamorgan, was admitted to the special diseases unit at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. His condition improved and he was sent home.

 

A week later, his health deteriorated. He went back to hospital but died of severe internal bleeding and a damaged liver.

 

Three weeks before his death, Gareth said of his ordeal: "I was living in a tin shack in the jungle and there were lots of black scorpions around. I was getting dressed one morning when I was stung on the thumb.

 

"I had a blister come out on my thumb and foot and I came out in a rash. I was in dreadful pain. I lost half my body weight and I felt very ill. I was glad to get home."

 

His sister, Pamela Roberts, said yesterday: "They shouldn't have let him out of hospital. I brought him home from Thailand to get him better and now he's lying dead in a hospital morgue.

 

"We're all so upset, I loved him to bits. He was so full of life, he loved dancing, having a laugh and playing golf. He had so much more living to do."

 

Divorced Gareth leaves a daughter, Natasha, 21, and two sons, Daniel, 14, and Harry, 10.

 

He sold his property business in Barry along with a penthouse flat in the resort's marina two years ago.

 

Gareth moved to Thailand and later married a local woman. They moved to her home village in a remote area outside Pattaya. He built a new home for his new wife and her three children.

 

A coroner will investigate his death.

[Ilich Ramirez Sanchez 0]

Welsh hospital heartlessly kills Welshman perhaps......unless they've moved Barry and South Glamorgan since I last checked.

[LocalYokul 217]

555, I fear IRS has a legitimate complaint with this post

[Gary 4,119]

Black scorpion? My wife has no fear of the black ones. She says they are not aggressive at all and are big and easy to see. The small brown ones apparently pack much more of a sting and are harder to see. She IS terrified of the big centipedes. She says they are more dangerous than any scorpion around here.

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The guy spent 4 months living alone in the jungle according to another account .Maybe that rather than the scorpion killed him.He lost his house in Thailand ,and had to return to the UK .His family paid the fare .Then the UK hospital discharged him too early it seems ,and he had to go live in a hostel with drug addicts .

All this account was in a Welsh Newspaper .