Shane Warne death: friend describes final meal of Vegemite toast at Thailand resort

Shane Warne’s last meal was a plate of Vegemite and toast shared with a friend at the Thailand resort where he died hours later. The poignant detail was revealed by The Sporting News CEO Tom Hall, who was already on the island of Koh Samui when Warne and three mates arrived.

“I have dined with Shane in many fine establishments, but rather than sample some of the local Thai fare, we tuck into a plate of Vegemite on toast,” Hall wrote in an article on the outlet’s website.

“Shane chomping away: ‘Geez, you can’t beat Vegemite with some butter, always great wherever you are in the world’. An Australian through and through – this was to turn out to be his last meal.”

Warne’s body was on Sunday taken from Koh Samui island by ferry to Surat Thani on the mainland and then on to a local hospital, where an autopsy was due to take place. Once that is completed, his remains are expected to be prepared for an air transfer to Melbourne.

There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death at age 52, from what is believed to have been a heart attack.

Overnight on Sunday, more details were revealed about the Melbourne-born cricket legend’s death. One of the paramedics called to the scene on Friday after Warne was found unconscious in his villa described how his friends desperately tried to revive him by applying CPR.

Bo Phut police station superintendent Yuttana Sirisombat earlier said that Warne had been suffering chest pains before arriving in Thailand. He also had asthma and had seen a doctor about his heart.

Warne’s manager James Erskine has also revealed the cricketer had recently come off a “ridiculous” fluid-only diet.

“He did go on these ridiculous sorts of diets, and he was just finished with one,” he told Nine Network.