Timo Jokinen, the 49 year old proprietor of a well-known bar and guesthouse on Phnom Penh’s Street 172 has been found dead in a room above the bar this morning. The Daun Penh District Chief of Police, Mr Hout Chanyaran told media that the cause of death is not yet known, but he appears to have been dead for several days and local media has reported that he committed suicide due to financial concerns. A $1,300 rent payment was due on his business, and it’s reported that he failed to pay the rent last month.
Mr Jokinen was a Finnish national and ran the popular Suomi Bar on Street 172.
In a bizarre twist to the story, the police have reported that while inspecting what they have called a ‘crime scene’ they saw blood flowing from a mezzanine level room and the door was locked from the inside. Photographs from the hotel show large amounts of blood streaming down a set of stairs.
This is the third expat death this weekend. The body of UK national Stephen King in a Sihanoukville guesthouse yesterday morning. Mr King, from Scunthorpe, had evidently just started a job with K9 dog training services, when he went home complaining of food poisoning. In a separate incident, a Malaysian woman, Kin KimKeng, was found dead in her room at the Green Palace Hotel in Phnom Penh yesterday.
According to Khmer440, at least 48 expats have died in Cambodia in less than six months in 2015.