Moment TOWIE star Jordan Wright threatens a ‘f****** shootout’ days earlier than he was discovered lifeless
TOWIE star Jordan Wright threatened a ‘f****** shootout’ to an unknown stranger over the phone days before he was found dead in a drainage ditch Thailand.
CCTV footage captures the reality TV star having a loud argument with the stranger – while standing at a drainage ditch where he would be found dead just two days later.
The haunting footage was taken at 11.37pm on March 12, 12 minutes after the 33-year-old from Basildon was seen on another CCTV camera running back to his hotel in Phuket.
Police believe he was arguing over the phone and said they are now investigating the identity of the caller on the other end.
It has not been confirmed exactly what Jordan said, but he appears to say: ‘Before they come back, let’s get them back in the head and have a f****** shootout.’
He also appears to say: ‘You better f**king perform yourself.
‘I’m gonna go for a long time, man, you’re gonna be late for your homecoming.
‘You’ve got to be able to defend yourself. That’s all it takes. Yeah, yeah, it’s true.’
A family of three staying at a neighbouring hotel can be seen on the CCTV footage appearing to overhear Jordan shouting on the phone
CCTV showed Jordan, top right, running erratically 12 minutes before he was heard shouting and threatening a ‘shootout’ during a phone call to an unknown person later that same night
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The footage also appears to show the TOWIE star saying at one point: ‘Don’t be cheating, alright bruv.’
The video also shows a family of three staying at a neighbouring hotel walking down a path turning around as they apparently hear Jordan shouting during the phone call.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Chanasin Prateep Na Thalang told the Sun that a ‘foreign family of three staying at The Title Hotel’ saw Mr Wright walking alone.
They said he was by the ‘drainage canal, shouting loudly as if he was in a frenzied state’, and reported then ‘hearing the sound of someone wading in the water’, Mr Thalang said.
He added: ‘Then at around midnight, the noise went quiet.’
The officer claimed that ‘no one ran after’ Jordan, and that no other voices were heard, adding: ‘The water level in some parts of the canal was chest-deep, and with the darkness and his agitated state, he may not have been able to climb back out.’
It is understood that police do not believe Jordan was being physically chased by another person when he was seen in one CCTV clip running back to the hotel – but that does not rule out the possibility that he was running away from someone stationary in another location before his death.
Police said security and CCTV cameras at Hotel COCO did not did not pick up any other figures. The circumstances leading up to Jordan’s death are ‘unclear’ and it is possible ‘other people were involved’.
The chisel-jawed firefighter became a huge hit with TOWIE fans and appeared in 17 episodes
Jordan formerly dated MTV’s Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison
Jordan, who had arrived in Thailand in December on a digital nomad visa, was found dead in a drainage canal on a construction site by a Burmese worker on March 14.
He is believed to have drowned in the stagnant water, but the exact time of his death is not yet known.
Jordan checked into his hotel at around 7pm on March 12, and it is unclear what he did until around 11.30pm, when he was captured running erratically back to the hotel and then later, on separate footage, heard arguing with someone loudly on the phone.
At 12.30pm two days later, on March 14, he was found dead by the Burmese worker, with his iPhone left on a grass bank nearby.
In the first CCTV footage taken before Jordan was heard yelling on the phone, he can be seen suddenly grabbing onto a parked white pickup truck to steady himself as he runs around a corner, appearing panicked and confused.
Moments later, he is seen deeper into the Hotel COCO Phuket Bangtao Beach grounds, pacing back and forth before quickly running out of the complex again and vanishing outside of the hotel’s perimeter.
From there, his final movements are even more erratic. It is believed that Jordan sprinted across uneven fields surrounding the hotel before jumping down a ten foot creek, splashing through a shallow stream and running towards a nearby construction site.
The site, where his body was found two days later, is an isolated, half-built area with no CCTV.
Hotel records show Jordan checked into the hotel alone and was due to leave on March 13, but never showed up.
