A British man has been charged over the death of his pregnant partner in Thailand, according to reports.
According to UK and local media, Danny Glass, 29, who is from Margate in Kent, is accused of reckless driving after Sophie Emma Rose Anderson, 41, was killed in a road accident in the Thalang area of the holiday island Phuket earlier this month.
He is due to hear the charges formally on Thursday and his family is expected to attend, the BBC reported. In a video posted on his YouTube channel, a visibly upset Glass had previously talked of his family coming to join him in Thailand to help him through the grieving process.
Anderson, who was due to give birth to the couple’s baby in about three months and had another child from a previous relationship, died on 8 May. Local police were quoted as saying that Glass, who escaped without serious injury, had tried to go around a parked vehicle on the scooter they were riding, leading to the crash.
But he claimed that another vehicle stopped sharply in front of him, forcing him to brake quickly. Anderson was thrown from the scooter and run over by a lorry, he said in a video in which he described the crash in graphic detail, as well as his struggle to deal with the loss of his partner.
It was reported that the driver of the lorry, Natt Awut Timsue, was charged with the same offence.
“Both men are being held responsible for the death of Ms Anderson, because both were driving recklessly. The drivers have already been charged. Right now, the investigation is not yet closed because we are still waiting for the autopsy to be released. Then they will go to court,” Lt Col Sanit Nookong of Thalang police station told the Phuket News.
Calls to local police went unanswered on Wednesday. Glass did not respond to a request for comment.
He had previously said: “Tragic news my girlfriend died in a scooter accident we had today … I am in total shock as I’ve lost the most precious person I had ever connected with”.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are in contact with the Thai police and are providing consular support to a British man following a road traffic accident in Phuket.”
