David Carradine’s family are upset by Thai newspaper’s decision to print grisly crime scene photo of star’s death

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David Carradine’s family are upset by Thai newspaper’s decision to print grisly crime scene photo of star’s death

Palais Du Festival David Carradine’s family are said to be ‘profoundly disturbed’ by the publication of what appears to be a crime scene photo showing the Kung Fu star’s body in a Thai newspaper.

A grainy photograph showing a naked man with both hands bound at the wrist and suspended above the head was published in the Thai Rath tabloid.

The face is blacked out and other areas obscured. Thai police believe the photo was taken by a member of the forensic team and leaked to the newspaper.

Sources believe the star died while engaged in a “sex act that went wrong.”

Pornthip Rojanasunand, director of Thailand’s Central Institute of Forensic Science, said the circumstances under which Carradine died suggest that he may have been performing auto-erotic asphyxiation.

The practice involves temporarily cutting off the supply of oxygen to the brain to heighten the effects of a sexual stimulation.

Singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in 1997 in similar circumstances.