A British pensioner died in a fall from a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Thailand in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Martin Upton, 69, plunged from his room and landed in a narrow alley next to the hotel building in Pattaya at around 2 am on February 4.

Police and medics arrived at the scene and found the shirtless man conscious but unable to speak.

They rushed him to the Bang Lamung Hospital but he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

A Thai woman Waew who lives opposite said she heard the Brit calling for help and notified the police when she found him lying on his back groaning in pain.

She said: 'I was resting in my room when I heard someone crying outside. I grabbed my flashlight and checked near the hotel, where I found the injured man lying on the ground.'

Martin's body remains at the Bang Lamung Hospital and will be turned over to his family for funeral arrangements.

Police Lieutenant Anirut Jehroh of the Pattaya City Police Station said: 'We have inspected the British man's room and found no traces of assault. We do not know yet if he fell on purpose or by accident.

'We do not believe anybody else was involved. A post-mortem examination will show us if he was drunk at the time.'

A Swedish swimming coach fatally also died in a fall from a hotel in a different part of Pattaya early on Sunday morning. The man, 60, suffered severe injuries and later died after falling from his third-floor room.

Police were investigating the causes of both incidents.

Former fishing village Pattaya became popular with American troops on 'rest and relaxation' breaks in the 1960s when the U.S. military had bases in Thailand. In the ensuing years, the coastal resort spawned into a semi-barbarous sex-tourism hellscape.

Embarrassed officials have made progress in gentrifying the region with family tourism projects but a ravenous nightlife industry and corrupt police have hampered their efforts, with undesirables from all nations still attracted to the seedy city.