A BRIT has been killed in a horror pickup truck crash in southern Thailand leaving his new husband in in a state of shock.
Bryn Adrian Whalley, 57, from Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, married his boyfriend from Thailand less than a year ago after taking early retirement from the London Stock Exchange.
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Whalley was driving his pickup in Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand on October 21 when he reportedly lost control of the vehicle.
He smashed into an electricity post and the blue Isuzu ended up in a ditch beside a bend in the road in the early hours of the morning.
Despite being rescued by paramedics, he died the following day from a severe headwound he suffered during the crash.
His husband, Thanat Worakulritthidamrong, 47, revealed that the pair got married in December 2023 after a year-long whirlwind romance.
“I’m still in shock that Bryn has gone,” he said.
“We had been through a lot together and I loved him.
“All my dreams came true when we were married. He was a very, very good person.”
“I never expected him to crash,” he added, saying that he organised a Buddhist funeral for the retired investment manager.
“We moved his body from the Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital to the Wat Kradang Nga temple for the funeral rites,” the grieving widower explained.
Whalley is to be cremated with some of his ashes being scattered at the ceremony and the rest to return to the UK, “which is what he wanted,” Thanat said.
Along with the shock of his husband’s sudden death, Thanat is also grieving for the plans that they had made for the future.
He revealed that their short marriage had not yet become official in Thailand, which they were hoping to sort out soon.
“I will not receive any of Bryn’s possessions because we were married before it was legally recognised in Thailand,” Thanat said.
“We had hoped to do that sometime in the future.”
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