Thailand’s investigators found “blood stains” on the floor of Shane Warne’s room and bath towels during a search of the villa where the legendary Australian cricketer stayed on the island of Koh Samui.
Warne, 52, died of a suspected heart attack on Friday while his manager gave the cricketer CPR 20 minutes before the ambulance arrived.
On Sunday, skynews.com.au reported that investigators found blood on the floor and bath towels in Warne’s room. The report also said that Australian authorities have reached Thailand and are working to bring back his body.
“Warne is believed to have suffered chest pain before leaving Australia and had a history of heart disease and asthma. Local media reports said investigators found blood stains on the floor and bath towels of Warne’s room during a search of the villa.
Meanwhile, Warne’s body has been taken to the Thai mainland for an autopsy, “despite requests from his family to expedite his return to Australia,” the report said.
A report on Fox.com.au quoted Weekend Today on Sunday as saying that the spin wizard had “just finished a two-week health kick” before suffering a heart attack. “Shane Warne ended a ridiculous diet before his death, the cricket legend’s manager is said to have revealed,” the report said.
The report said, “(Manager) James Erxine said that Warne was essentially consuming only fluids for 14 days – a diet he had previously taken – something from a suspected heart attack in Thailand. time ago,” the report said.
He said, ‘I didn’t know about this (Warne’s heart issue). I knew from his secretary, Helen, that he would have a slight chest pain and had been sweating last week but I only found that he died later. I didn’t know it at the time,” Erskine said on Weekend Today.
“He went on these ridiculous types of diets and he just ended one, where he basically only ate liquids for 14 days and he did it three or four times. It was a little…all or nothing. No. It was either white buns stuffed with butter and lasagne in the middle or he might have been consuming black and green juices.
“I don’t know, he apparently smoked most of his life. I don’t know, I think it was just a major heart attack. I guess that’s what happened.”
A day before his death, Warne posted a shirt-less picture of himself on Instagram and wrote, “Operation Shred has begun (in 10 days) and by July the goal is to get back to the shape it was a few years ago! Running rate. #healthy #fitness #feelgood.”
Former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Ian Healy said on Saturday that he was not surprised by the leg-spinner’s early death.
Healy told The Today Show, “The early passing didn’t surprise me for Varney. He didn’t take care of his body so well. He yo-yoed up and down. He didn’t put on much sunscreen. I thought it was this.” That would have become a skin problem for him over time, but not at 52. And he would be full of beans by the end, I’m sure.
Healy said, “If you can take out the two cricket guys from our game who were our busiest and most excited characters, they were gone within a week.” “Both men (died) very quickly. We needed threads from these two, Rod and Varney, for at least 20 years.”
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