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utside the arrivals hall at Samui Airport, the hovering taxi van drivers had no idea about the famous Australian who had died the night before.
It was last Saturday morning on Koh Samui and while Shane Warne’s sudden death little more than 12 hours before had shocked Australia and the sporting world, word was still to get around on the holiday island in the Gulf of Thailand.
At that stage, the back street leading to Samujana Villas resort, where Warne suffered a suspected heart attack, was not yet cordoned off by security.
Inside, Warne’s business manager and friend Andrew Neophitou was seated on a couch in an office adjacent to the resort’s small foyer. Opposite him, slumped behind a desk, was Gareth Edwards, a poker-playing friend of Warne’s and chief marketing officer of the resort.
Shane Warne had visited Koh Samui on four…
