Police in Pattaya confirm autopsy on body of British retail entrepreneur Quentin Griffiths found no signs of foul play
Quentin Griffiths, the co-founder of the online fashion retailer Asos, has died after falling from an apartment building in the Thai resort city of Pattaya.
An unnamed police investigator told the BBC that officers were called on 9 February after a man was found dead, having fallen from an 18-storey condominium in Pattaya, on Thailand’s eastern Gulf coast.
Griffiths, a 58-year-old British passport holder, was alone at the time, the investigator said, and an autopsy found no indication of foul play. There was also no sign of a break-in.
The retail entrepreneur co-founded Asos in London in 2000 with Nick Robertson, the great-grandson of the eponymous founder of the suit retailer Austin Reed. The business launched with the name As Seen on Screen, before switching to the Asos acronym in 2002. It grew to become one of the world’s largest online fashion retailers, with its designs worn by Rihanna and Michelle Obama. Griffiths left the company in 2005.
