Police allegedly removed drug from Shane Warne’s hotel room
A new report has revealed details of the investigation more than three years after the cricket legend’s death in Thailand.
Cricket legend Shane Warne had multiple bottles of drugs at his bedside when he was found dead in a Thai hotel room, a new report alleges.
The former Australian cricketer died in March 2022 while on holiday on the Thai island of Koh Samui.
The 52-year-old was found unresponsive in his rooms at the luxurious Samujana Villas just an hour after two women were seen on CCTV leaving his room.
A newly unearthed medical report, revealed by The Sun more than three years after his death, lists two types of Viagra and a drug known to improve longevity that were found in the bedroom in his suite.
The document reveals paramedics who rushed to the room discovered Sildenafil, marketed as Viagra, Kamagra, an unregulated version of Viagra available in jelly sachets, and Dapoxetine, a drug used to prevent premature ejaculation.
Kamagra is illegal in Thailand, but is widely available over the counter.
Viagra and Dapoxetine are legal with a prescription, but can also be bought on the black market. It remains unclear whether Warne had taken any of the drugs before his death.
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But the cricketer was known to have a history of heart issues, and the medications carry warnings for those with cardiovascular conditions.
An autopsy conducted in Thailand concluded Warne died of natural causes due to congenital heart disease.
The report ruled out foul play, according to The Sun.
But reports surfaced last weekend alleging Thai police removed Kamagra from Warne’s hotel room during their investigation.
This week, News Corp reported Warne had openly spoken about using Viagra during his relationship with actress and model Elizabeth Hurley.
Warne was staying at the Smujana Villas resort on a holiday with three friends at the time of his death.
CCTV footage from the resort showed two massage therapists leaving his villa shortly before he was found unconscious about 5pm by Andrew Neophitou, the executive producer of a documentary on Warne’s life and career.
“They were meant to meet some people at 5pm. Neo was next door, he’s always on time,” Warne’s manager, James Erskine, said in 2022.
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“He realised [Warne] wasn’t well. He tried to give mouth-to-mouth, tried to resuscitate him, he had no heartbeat.”
Warne’s friends called for an ambulance at 5.40pm, with paramedics arriving at 6pm.
The medical report details how emergency responders began CPR at 6.10pm and transported Warne to Thailand International Hospital.
“When he arrived at hospital his face was green and pale, he had black blood in his nose and mouth, which was unusual. There was no sign of life,” Dr Dulyakit Wittayachanyapong, who oversaw Warne’s treatment at the hospital, told The Sun Online.
Hospital staff attempted resuscitation for 43 minutes before Warne was declared dead at 6.53pm.
The medical report states that doctors intubated him and administered adrenaline and sodium bicarbonate in efforts to revive him.
Blood tests at the hospital revealed his oxygen levels had dropped to a critical 40 per cent.
During his 15-year international career, Warne was widely regarded as one of cricket’s greatest leg-spinners.
Off the pitch, he was known for his flamboyant lifestyle.
His 10-year marriage to Simone Callahan, with whom he had three children, ended in divorce.
He was later engaged to Hurley, though the couple eventually separated.
Warne, a habitual smoker and drinker, had also been on a liquid diet in the weeks leading up to his death.
“Operation shred has started (10 days in) & the goal by July is to get back to this shape from a few years ago,” he wrote above a bare-chested picture of his taut, ripped younger self posted to social media on the night he arrived at Samujana Villas.
