Police raided a house in Chatuchak district of Bangkok yesterday morning as part of an investigation into the death on Tuesday of a pretty model hired as a hostess along with several other women at the residence that evening.
The four-storey house was surrounded by an unusually high wall, about 2.5 metres, and equipped with security cameras installed around it. However, no one was there but a luxury car and a BMW motorcycle at the time of the raid, which took about half an hour to finish.
According to a source, police investigators at Phahon Yothin police station had obtained a text chat history between Whitchayaporn Visessombut, 33, the dead hostess, and her modelling agent the day she was hired for the job at the house the night before she was pronounced dead at a hospital Tuesday morning.
Doctors said she died of respiratory failure.
Since her death, her relatives have begun seeking assistance as they fear her case could turn out to be as complicated as that of model Thitima "Lunlabelle" Noraphanpiphat in 2019.
The chat history also contained a receipt of money transfers of 30,000 baht to four hostesses, including Whitchayaporn, for the party job, said the source.
Aside from these four women, six other hostesses form a different agency were also hired to work at the same party, said the source.
So far police believe that between five and seven men and 10 women were at the party on Monday night, which reportedly involved the use of drugs.
Police said they are still waiting for the full autopsy report on the dead woman.