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 passport of Australian man Mark Allen, whose body was found in his room at a Phnom Penh guesthouse on Thursday. Picture: Cambodian Police

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.

Mark Allen had checked into Room 202 of the Tonle Sap Guest House on October 15, his second trip to Cambodia this year. Picture: Tonle Sap

Mark Allen’s passport showed he had flown into Cambodia via Darwin and had also visited in March this year. Picture: Cambodian Police

Workers at the Tonle Sap Guest House found Allen’s body in the bathroom after noticing a foul smell on December 1. Picture: Tonle Sap

Mark Allen checked into the Tonle Sap Guest House above the Pickled Parrot Pub on October 15 and was found dead on December 1. Picture: Tonle Sap

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.

Mark Allen’s body was found in a room above the Pickled Parrot Pub on a street noted for its hostess bars in Phnom Penh. Picture: Tonle Sap

Mark Allen, from Western Australia, had flown into Phnom Penh via Jet Asia Airways from Darwin before checking into the Tonle Sap Guest House.

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.

The passport of Australian man Jonathan Bond, 24, who died in a Phnom Penh guesthouse in February this year.