Family and friends of Duangphet 'Dom' Phromthep, one of the soccer players rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand in 2018, attend funeral for the 17-year-old who died last month in the UK.
Strangely, the boy’s mobile phone had been wiped clean by the time it was returned to his family along with his personal belongings.Not a solitary clue as to why this promising 17-year-old footballer had taken his life in his dormitory at a Leicestershire football academy just five years after being delivered from a flooded mountain cave in Thailand — an audacious rescue operation watched with awe and trepidation by millions around the world.
There must be some explanation for the lonely suicide of a young man whose smiling face, caught in the light of a rescuer’s torch, touched the hearts of millions back in the summer of 2018, writes DAVID JONESHis devastated mother Thanapron Phromthep The college was equally circumspect, choosing not to explain — if, indeed, they had any answers — why he might have sunk into despair, just five months after embarking on the English soccer scholarship that was the stuff of his dreams.
Trapped for a fortnight by the rising floodwater, when he and his friends quickly ran out of food, they survived by licking the water drops from stalactites. This week, expert cave rescuer Rick Stanton, the former Coventry firefighter who carried Dom to safety gave me an insight into the heart-stopping mission that freed them.
In one of the many films documenting the rescue, the 25-year-old team coach admits that by the ninth day, when they were close to starvation, they made a pact to cannibalise the first boy to perish. ‘Being trapped for so long, and not knowing if you’re going to survive or die — it must have an impact on your future health and wellbeing,’ she told the Mail this week.
He and another player, Tee, pointed out that the team had ventured inside the cave several times after the rescue, belying the theory that they were suffering PTSD.After their miraculous rescue, the boys’ lives changed immeasurably. ‘He had a very good attitude and he was an optimistic boy,’ says Wild Boars founder and head coach Nopparat Kanthawong, who, despite the inquest verdict, refuses to accept that Dom would have deliberately killed himself.
Amid this clamour, the Thai government established 13 Tham Luang Company Ltd, a business entity said to be representing their interests. Dom’s place came courtesy of the Zico Foundation, which provides less privileged children with opportunities to shine in the sport. As matters stand, there is not a single Thai national playing in the Premier League. Though Brooke House College’s website lists 26 graduates who have forged professional careers since 2009, that roll-call is hardly a harbinger of future fame, either.So, after Dom began his three-year college course, which combined academic study with football training, did the cold truth dawn?
Diver Rick Stanton, who helped to save the schoolboys as part of the rescue mission, had only met Dom once more
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