British boss of Indian car giant Tata jumped to his death from 22nd floor of Bangkok hotel after a blazing five-hour row with his wife

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British boss of Indian car giant Tata jumped to his death from 22nd floor of Bangkok hotel after a blazing five-hour row with his wife

British-born Karl Slym was in Thailand for a Tata Motors board meeting
He died after falling from a high floor hotel window in a 'possible suicide'
Police believe it would be impossible to 'accidentally fall' from the window
Officers said Mr Slym rowed with his wife Sally the night before he died
They found a three page letter from Mrs Slym to her husband in his room
Slym, 51, was hired to revive flagging sales at the Indian car giant
Tata Motors stock fell by more than 6% on Monday following his death
Company statement described him as a 'valued colleague' and 'strong' leader

By Nick Fagge and Ben Lazarus
PUBLISHED: 12:55 EST, 26 January 2014 | UPDATED: 20:45 EST, 27 January 2014

The British boss of Indian car giant Tata Motors jumped to his death from a Bangkok hotel room following a blazing row with his wife, it emerged yesterday.
Karl Slym was handed a three-page letter by his wife Sally detailing a ‘family problem’ on Saturday night after she became so enraged she stopped speaking to him.
In the early hours of Sunday the managing director clambered out of the tiny window of his room on the 22nd floor of the luxury Shangri-La Hotel and jumped, landing on the staff accommodation block.

Fall: British-born Karl Slym, managing director of India's Tata Motors has died after reportedly 'jumping' from a hotel balcony

Mr Slym was handed a three-page document by his wife Sally detailing a 'family issue' on the night he died

Karl Slym and his wife Sally, who had travelled to Thailand with her husband, during an awards ceremony

Mrs Slym had accompanied her 51-year-old husband to Bangkok for a board meeting of Tata Motors’ Thailand unit, but the couple were overheard engaged in a loud and bitter fight on Saturday night.
After giving her husband the letter she went to sleep, and only learned of his death from police officers who knocked on her hotel room door on Sunday morning.
Mrs Slym was treated for shock and was later interviewed by Thai police. She told them: ‘We rowed and rowed about family business from about 7pm. Then I wrote a long letter and went to bed.’
A Thai police source added: ‘The wife said that they had rowed so much about a family problem that she could not talk to her husband any more. They had been fighting and it had become very loud.

Mr Slym's body was discovered by staff on a ledge on the fourth floor of the riverside Shangri-La hotel

Mr Slym, with an employee at a plant in Halol, was heard arguing with his wife on Saturday night

Mr Slym and his wife were not talking the last time they saw one another, police said today

‘She went to the bedroom and decided to write her husband a letter to let him know how she felt. She gave it to her husband and then went to sleep.’ Officers declined to give details of the family problem.
Police Lieutenant Somyot Booyakaew said detectives found no sign of a struggle and were working on the assumption that Mr Slym committed suicide.

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