Phuket Manhunt for Expat Killer: Englishman Knifes American to Death

**Mid** · 28-08-2010, 04:10 PM

Kickboxer Wanted for Murder of Marine Back in UK
Friday, 27 Aug 2010

(Fox News Channel) - A British kickboxer wanted for questioning over the brutal murder of an American soldier in Thailand is reportedly in custody after fleeing to London, media reports said Friday.

Lee Aldhouse is suspected of stabbing U.S. Marine Dashawn Longfellow, 23, to death at the Thai resort of Phuket.

The U.K.'s Home Office, the government department responsible for crime and security, confirmed to Fox News Channel Friday that the suspect was back in the U.K.

It did not reveal if the suspect was in police custody, Fox said.

A report published Friday on the Thai news website, Phuketwan, however, said Aldhouse was arrested Tuesday at a London airport as he tried to re-enter Britain.

Citing Thai police officials, it suggested the 28-year-old suspect had first slipped into Cambodia, taking advantage of slack border controls, then headed to Singapore where he boarded a plane to England.

The website said Thai authorities were poised to begin extradition proceedings to have the martial artist returned to Phuket to stand trial.

Aldhouse is alleged to have killed Longfellow on August 14 after the pair had a fight at a bar.

Thai cops suspect Aldhouse followed Longfellow, who was on vacation, back to the Ya Nui Paradise Resort hotel where another fight took place.

Longfellow was then stabbed to death, authorities say.

Source: Fox News Channel

myfoxatlanta.com

**Stranger** · 28-08-2010, 04:13 PM

This is interesting..... http://video.foxnews.com/v/4322719/m...uspect-nabbed/

**The Bold Rodney** · 28-08-2010, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by crippen

There is still nothing in the British press about him entering U.K.??? Plenty about the killing but nothing else. Is it possible that the Thai Police are............?

Yes, very strange that...considering "Fox" reckon Aldhouse was arrested Tuesday, I don't think so!

You don't think the Phuket police are part time "Hacks" do you?

FarangRed · 28-08-2010, 04:26 PM

If they arrested him another charge my guess the chances of him being back in Thailand within a week I don't think so

**The Bold Rodney** · 28-08-2010, 04:46 PM

As somebody wrote before...an army of "legal leftties" are waitng in the wings to get their teeth into this one for sure.

He'll be afforded the best legal defence probably running to several hundred thousands of punds as the UK legal profession get their milking stools out, all at the expense of the tax payer!

Just one question, HAS IT ACTUALLY BEEN CONFIRMED 100% THAT ALDHOUSE IS IN DEFINITELY THE UK? and I don't mean by that fucking comic The Bangkok Post!

**aging one** · 28-08-2010, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

Just one question, HAS IT ACTUALLY BEEN CONFIRMED 100% THAT ALDHOUSE IS IN DEFINITELY THE UK? and I don't mean by that fucking comic The Bangkok Post!

Are you really that thick? Change the adjective bold to retarded and we are talking.

**Begbie** · 28-08-2010, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by spikebs4

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Dug

would suggest a hit to me.

Possible but an extremely large amount for a hit in Thailand. Much cheaper and more efficient to hire a couple of Thais to shoot the guy as they drive by on a motosci.

if you pay peanuts your going to get monkeys ,if and when they get pulled for any offence , they have information on a falang , bubble you and they get lighter sentence simple .. proper job done cost 1/2 mil plus

Funny kind of a hit with a knife stolen from 7-11.

More likely the scumbag's first thought was to buy his way out. Easy to contact his bank and have a major amount of cash transferred in. From reading his life story he must have a rainy day fund somewhere from the proceeds of dealing drugs or robbery.

**The Bold Rodney** · 28-08-2010, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Begbie

Funny kind of a hit with a knife stolen from 7-11. More likely the scumbag's first thought was to buy his way out. Easy to contact his bank and have a major amount of cash transferred in. From reading his life story he must have a rainy day fund somewhere from the proceeds of dealing drugs or robbery.

Sounds like a reasonable idea for sure and 5 million would work wonders when its comes to the police "mislaying" the evidence they gathered.

Its been done for a lot less than that!

**crippen** · 28-08-2010, 05:57 PM

And the police have the bank book now

**English Noodles** · 28-08-2010, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by crippen

And the police have the bank book now

It's okay. Aldhouse can now just have the money transferred over to a UK bank account now that he has no use for it in Thailand.

The Thai authorities can't freeze the account.

**taxexile** · 28-08-2010, 06:11 PM

they could if they wanted to.

cant see them allowing a 5 mill. baht transfer by phone or internet banking.

you need some paperwork before you can move that amount out.

**StrontiumDog** · 28-08-2010, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Just been reading the old original thread, this was a police announcement on the 17th of this month

Phuket manhunt leader Colonel Vichid Intharasorn: An expat crime, so who pays?

Phuket Net Closing on Kickbox Killer Suspect - Phuket Wan

Phuket Net Closing on Kickbox Killer Suspect

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

THE OFFICER in charge of the manhunt for Phuket's kickbox killer believes the net is closing and his prey has limited options now.

''He has two choices,'' Colonel Vichid Intharasorn told Phuketwan. ''He can surrender to police. We would be happy to see him. Or he can hold out until we come for him.

''There is no escape.''

That was some big net, with freakin huge holes....

**StrontiumDog** · 28-08-2010, 06:17 PM

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-...suspect-12902/

Phuket Awaits Extradition of Kickbox Killing Suspect

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian
Saturday, August 28, 2010

UPDATE

The Birmingham Mail reports that Lee Aldhouse was held in London under an old warrant issued for his recall to prison. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ''A 27-year-old man was arrested on Terminal One of Heathrow Airport at 16.55 on Wednesday August 18. He was wanted on warrant for recall to prison and has been returned to the prison service.''

Original Report

POLICE on Phuket are continuing their investigation into the murder of former US Marine DaShawn Longfellow as they await more information from Britain, where his alleged killer is now being held.

According to officers on Phuket, British police have confirmed that professional kickboxer Lee Aldhouse, 28, was apprehended on Tuesday after he arrived at a British airport on a flight from Singapore.

News of the arrest of Aldhouse brought great relief among the expat community on the Thai holiday island, where a manhunt has been underway since Longfellow, 23, was stabbed to death before dawn on August 14.

Little is known about Aldhouse's exact movements or indeed what has transpired since his apprehension. British police have contacted Thai police, and officers in Britain are likely now to be looking in great depth into Aldhouse's activities there.

If as a consequence he is charged with any offence in Britain, that could delay the prospect of an early extradition back to Thailand to face a murder charge in relation to Longfellow's fatal stabbing.

Unlike their Thai counterparts, who usually parade ''big fish'' captives once the basic circumstances of the case have been established, British police are not noted for celebrating the arrest of high-profile suspects.

Phuket police, though, are hoping to have Aldhouse back on the island within weeks, if not days. Much depends now on the speed of the processing of the paperwork.

As soon as Thai authorities lodge a request with the British embassy in Bangkok for Aldhouse's extradition, the case will enter a new phase and become a matter for envoys on both sides.

Diplomatic contacts told Phuketwan today that the fact that a murder conviction in Thailand could carry the death penalty and that Britain no longer supports capital punishment would not necessarily impede the extradition process.

What remains just as valid, though, is the point made by the Phuket manhunt leader, Colonel Vichid Intharasorn - that a British man appears to have killed an American man, yet it is Thailand that will have to bear the complete cost of his trial and his incarceration.

Relations between Britain and Thailand are amicable and a number of British suspects, wanted for serious crimes including rape and pedophilia, have recently been detected in Thailand by local authorities.

Aldhouse had an especially grim and thuggish reputation on Phuket. Earlier this year, he put his Thai girlfriend, whose nickname is ''Fang,'' in hospital with three broken ribs.

''Fang'' is now said to have helped him to escape from Thailand just three days after the murder, apparently across the frontier to Cambodia at a low-tech border crossing, then on to a flight from Singapore to London.

A surge in the number and the seriousness of crimes committed by expats in Thailand has begun to alarm authorities, with two murders on Phuket in the space of weeks.

Greater exchange of information about tourist visitors who have a criminal record has been raised as an issue: the Longfellow murder could help to speed the sharing of national ''blacklists''.

Already Thai police have improved their capacity to deal with transnational crimes, and so far this year Phuket police have succeeded in apprehending suspects wanted in Taiwan, the US, Germany and South Korea.

Manhunt police on Phuket say that despite a humble background, Aldhouse had a bank account that was topped up to five million baht during his escape, although no withdrawals were made.

Officers are investigating allegations that Aldhouse was a drug dealer on Phuket, which would have helped to support a lifestyle that only involved training as a kickboxer.

At times, he is also said to have posed as an American. He also fought some local Thai boxing bouts posing as an Australian, encouraging false cheers from the large Aussie contingents among the holiday audiences.

**Mid** · 28-08-2010, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

The Birmingham Mail reports

Birmingham kickboxer arrested for death of soldier in Thailand
Mark Cowan
Aug 28 2010

A BIRMINGHAM kickboxer at the centre of a manhunt following the fatal stabbing of a US soldier in Thailand has been arrested at Heathrow airport.

Lee Aldhouse was held in London under an old warrant issued for his recall to prison.

The Thai authorities could now seek his extradition over the death of Dashawn Longfellow on the tropical island of Phuket in the early hours of August 14.

Aldhouse was named as the prime suspect by Thai police after the body of Mr Longfellow was found before dawn at the Yanui Paradise Resort, in southern Phuket, where he was on holiday after being injured while serving in Afghanistan with the US Marines.

According to reports, Aldhouse left Thailand via Cambodia and he is thought to have bought a ticket to get him back to the UK via another overseas airport.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “A 27-year-old man was arrested on Terminal One of Heathrow Airport at 16.55 on Wednesday August 18. He was wanted on warrant for recall to prison and has been returned to the prison service.”

It is not clear why he was recalled to prison, or what offence he had been serving time for.
It is understood that he was not held in connection with any allegations relating to the incident in Thailand as no formal request has been made to do so.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “All offenders subject to probation supervision on release from prison have to adhere to strict conditions. They are subject to recall to custody if they breach their conditions or their behaviour indicates it is no longer safe to allow them to remain in the community.

“The police are notified of any offender who breaches the conditions of their licence and has been recalled to prison. Once the police have apprehended the offender they are returned to prison.”

Reports in Phuket said police were compiling a dossier for the Phuket provincial public prosecutor to decide whether to file an extradition request with the British Embassy in Bangkok and seek Aldhouse’s returned to Thailand.

birminghammail.net

**StrontiumDog** · 28-08-2010, 06:25 PM

He does sound like a delightful fellow. Drug dealing, girlfriend beating and now murdering psychopath. Charming.

**Mid** · 28-08-2010, 06:29 PM

now we have UK confirmation of his arrest

**crippen** · 28-08-2010, 06:33 PM

Terminal One of Heathrow Airport at 16.55 on Wednesday August 18. quote

Took them long enough to tell us,but it was just a UK warrant of arrest.

**Mid** · 28-08-2010, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

Birmingham kickboxer arrested for death of soldier in Thailand

see post #192

**The Bold Rodney** · 28-08-2010, 07:03 PM

Apologies for that, missed it altogether...but he sounds like he's a complete Nutter and I'm pleased that he's no longer cruising around Thailand in any bars!

**Stranger** · 28-08-2010, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Mid

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

Birmingham kickboxer arrested for death of soldier in Thailand

see post #192

See post #177.

**The Bold Rodney** · 28-08-2010, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Stranger

See post #177.

Yep...I'd read that post but really wanted to read a little more detail as the UK press hadn't said anything at the time.

Not that I don't trust Fox, its usually very good!

FarangRed · 28-08-2010, 08:03 PM

I told you all he got arrested last week well no he handed himself in

**Stranger** · 28-08-2010, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by FarangRed

I told you all he got arrested last week well no he handed himself in

He didn't hand himself in.......report says he was arrested at terminal 1 of Heathrow Airport.

FarangRed · 28-08-2010, 08:19 PM

ok sorry he told them hes is wanted

**Stranger** · 28-08-2010, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by FarangRed

ok sorry he told them hes is wanted

Why would he do that? Why not just leave the airport and go about his business? He would have nothing to lose by roaming the streets.

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