"Heartbreaking Message from ASOS Tycoon to Son Just Hours Before Tragic Fall from Thai Villa Balcony, Investigation Closed"

TRAGIC ASOS tycoon Quentin Griffiths texted his son to say “Trust no-one” the day before he fell from his apartment balcony in Thailand.

And then within hours of , two mystery men entered his family villa a few miles away on the edge of the city and ransacked it.

Shortly after, the first of three tranches of worth a total of £2.6m was transferred out of his online wallet.

As the coroner in the UK continues to try and unpick the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death with a pre-inquest hearing taking place Tuesday, The Sun travelled to Thailand to reconstruct his final days.

And we can reveal that four mobile devices recovered from his apartment after he died were never inspected by who have still not traced the men who rifled through his possessions.

Despite that, their inquiries into his mysterious death have ended.

Phupha Hongyakun, the Police Lieutenant leading the inquiry, told The Sun: “There is no further investigation taking place.

“I have reported to the court here in Thailand that Quentin has died. After that, no further investigation.

“I don’t know about him sending a text message to anyone as I handed his phones and tablet to his family.

“I feel that he was under a lot of stress, facing various legal cases at the time and he felt there was no other solution for him.”

Quentin, 58, employed nanny Ae Ladlakhon on a monthly salary of £450 tohe had with his Thai wife Ploy after he won custody when they split.

Ae’s sister Rattikan Ladlakhon, 34, said: “After Quentin fell from the building, Ae called us in a state of shock.

“She told us that she could not believe that he had killed himself – there had been no argument, no warning signs, no apparent stress and nothing unusual.

“She told us that after he died, the house had been searched.”

The Sun previously revealed that Quentin’s son Joel, 29, reported to police that two men gained entry to the family villa at the plush Phoenix golf course outside of Pattaya the day after he died.

They also entered a second time the following day and again rifled through his possessions, he told officers.

But Ae’s family has now revealed it happened much sooner than first thought – on the night that Quentin died, raising questions as to how the men knew he had died.

Rattikan added: “The house was searched that night after Quentin died. Ae was not there at the time because he had earlier told her that she could go home.

“She had gone to the house late at night after the incident but was unable to enter because someone told her she was not allowed to go inside.

“Later, when she was allowed into the house, she learned that it had been searched and ransacked.

“Ae said that she thought it was probably someone with influence who had gone into the house.

“Someone also called her and told her not to interfere with or touch anything in the house, but that she could continue looking after the children as normal.”

It is not known how the men came to know of Quentin’s death so quickly or what they were looking for in his villa.

Rattikan went on: “Ae also told us that his son said Quentin had sent him a message the night before he died, something along the lines of ‘Trust no one’ or ‘Don’t trust anyone…’ I can’t remember the exact words.

“It seemed as though he had given his son some kind of warning beforehand, which was why his son became suspicious.”

The Sun has obtained the autopsy report into Quentin’s death which showed he had a blood alcohol level around twice the UK legal drink drive limit.

There were no drugs or poisons in his body.

The report states: “The body experienced an excessive force which caused unsurvivable injuries including serious injury to his brain, heart and stomach.”

We have also obtained the records of the electronic key card used to enter his apartment at the Elysium Residences, which boasts it is “Pattaya’s most luxurious destination”.

It reveals that he entered the apartment on February 9 at 12.39pm.

He left at some stage that afternoon before returning at 3.02pm. It is not known where he went during that time or if he met anyone.

He didn’t go out again and remained inside the property, worth around 17million baht (£380,000), until he fell from the balcony around 8pm.

A woman on the 8th floor of the property was horrified when she was looking out from her own balcony and saw someone hurtle past to the ground below.

The police recovered at least three phones and a tablet from Quentin’s property but they did not investigate them before they were returned to his family.

So officers were unable to further explore the concerning text he sent to his son or check who he had an angry phone call shortly before he died.

Restaurant boss Kluaymai Jaemjaeng, 52, was working directly behind Quentin’s apartment when she overheard him on the call.

She said: “The shouting in the argument sounded very aggressive, like heavy swearing and screaming.

“I heard things like ‘fck’ and ‘sht…’. I never heard another person’s voice, only him, so I assumed he was talking on the phone.

“He kept shouting for more than ten minutes but I couldn’t tell whether it was about business or relationships.”

When Joel arrived in Thailand to deal with the fallout from his dad’s death, he was so suspicious about the men going into the villa and the missing crypto he went to the police.

The official record of his complaint states: “This report also serves as evidence to show the behaviour and actions of individuals who may be involved in Quentin’s death.”

Quentin co-founded online fashion retailer ASOS in 2000 but stepped down as marketing director in 2005.

By then he was a hugely wealthy man with ASOS on its way to becoming a £4bn global giant.

After divorcing his British wife, the mother of his first three children, he moved in with Ploy who he had met in Bangkok.

They had two kids of their own but later split up triggering a bitter custody dispute and a criminal probe when he fraudulently removed her as a director of the firm they set up to buy the family home.

He was convicted in October 2025 and jailed for 18 months but freed pending an appeal.

Ploy’s lawyer proposed a compromise which would see her client gain access to the kids and a financial settlement but she said he rejected it and declared: “She’s not getting a penny.”

A fresh custody battle between Ploy and Quentin’s UK-based family over the two children is continuing in the Thai courts.

The pre-inquest hearing into his death takes place in his home town of Bournemouth on Monday.