Australian man found dead in Cambodian guesthouse from apparent drug overdose
THE body of Australian man Mark Allen has been found in a guesthouse in Cambodia after an apparent drug overdose.
THE decomposing remains of an Australian man, Mark Allen, has been found in his rented room at a Cambodian guesthouse in the capital Phnom Penh.
Police say they believe the Australian tourist, who is originally from East Fremantle, Western Australia, died from a suspected drug overdose.
The body of Mark Wayne Allen, 56, was found in a second floor room of the Tonle Sap Guest House on Street 104, a well-known hostess bar strip in Phnom Penh.
Mr Allen checked in on a tourist visa on October 15 to Room 202. Originally from Western Australia, he had flown via Jet Asia Airways from Darwin.
Mr Allen’s passport shows the Australian had visited Cambodia earlier this year, in March.
The Tonle Sap Guest House, which is above a 24-hour venue called the Pickled Parrot Pub & Restaurant, fronts the Tonle Sap River and is near the city’s Night Markets.
On December 1, guesthouse staff noticed a foul odour coming from Room 202.
They found a man lying dead on the bathroom floor in the room.
Police identified the man as Mark Wayne Allen and removed his body to the Khmer-Soviet Friendly Hospital.
Another Australian and other foreigners have been found dead from drug overdoses in Phnom Penh this year.
In February, Jonathan William Bond, 24, an Australian teaching English at Western University in Phnom Penh was found dead in a guesthouse.
Police found a syringe, which they believed was used to inject drugs near the body of Mr Bond, who a post mortem found had died five days earlier.
Among the other men to die from drugs in Phnom Penh were two Americans, a Briton and New Zealand journalist Christopher James Adams, 34, found in October four days after checking in.
Mr Adams had morphine and methamphetamine in his body, according to a post mortem report.