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First Briton ever extradited to Thailand arrives to face murder charge
A British kickboxer has become the first criminal suspect to be extradited from the UK to Thailand and will go on trial for murder on Monday.
Lee Aldhouse walks with Thai police officers shortly after his arrival at Phuket airport. Photo: AP
By David Eimer in Bangkok
5:48PM GMT 02 Dec 2012
Lee Aldhouse, from Yardley, Birmingham, is accused of stabbing to death former US marine Dashawn Longfellow, after a bar brawl on the popular island resort of Phuket in August 2010.
Thai authorities hailed Mr Aldhouse's extradition as a landmark decision.
Britain and Thailand have had an extradition treaty since 1911, but previously no British national has ever been sent to the country to face trial.
"This is the first time in 101 years that the UK has approved a request," said Police Colonel Sinard Ajhanwong.
"Prior to this case they had declined to send suspects back to us, so that emphasises the significance of this case."
A 29-year-old kickboxer who fought under the name 'The Pitbull', Mr Aldhouse is said to have clashed with Mr Longfellow, who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the US Marines, in a local bar on August 14th 2010, before following him to his hotel and allegedly stabbing him.
He then fled to the UK, where he was arrested at Heathrow.
Mr Aldhouse has spent over two years battling extradition to Thailand. His lawyers claimed that conditions in a Thai jail would contravene his human rights under Article 3 of the Human Rights Convention, which prohibits "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
Home Secretary Theresa May attempted to block Mr Aldhouse's appeal against extradition in December last year. However, in February the High Court ruled that his appeal was entitled to be heard.
But it was rejected last week and the tattooed and shaven-headed Mr Aldhouse arrived in Thailand on Saturday evening accompanied by Thai officials. He is expected to appear in Phuket's Provincial Court on Monday morning.
The family and friends of his alleged victim Mr Longfellow were jubilant about Mr Aldhouse's extradition, posting comments on a Facebook page set up in his memory as his flight approached Bangkok. "Nearly there!" noted one friend.
Although murder is punishable by the death penalty in Thailand, and Mr Longfellow's family have called for him to be executed if found guilty, the Thai authorities have said Mr Aldhouse will not face death by lethal injection.
Instead, he is likely to serve his sentence alongside 1900 other prisoners in the cramped confines of Phuket's 100-year-old jail, which was designed to house 750 inmates.
British kickboxer Lee Aldhouse formally charged with murder in stabbing death of former U.S. Marine
The fighter, known as 'The Pitbull,' is the first Briton to ever be extradited from England to Thailand, where the crime occured in 2010. The victim, Dashawn Longfellow, was found stabbed in the chest outside of his Phuket island hotel.
BY ERIK ORTIZ / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012, 9:00 AM
British murder suspect Lee Aldhouse walks with Thai police Dec. 1 shortly after his arrival on the first-ever case of extradition of a criminal suspect from Britain to Thailand.
British kickboxer Lee Aldhouse.
Thailand hit a British kickboxer with murder charges Wednesday in the 2010 stabbing death of a former U.S. Marine.
The indictment against Lee Aldhouse, 29, came after England handed him over earlier this month, becoming the first Briton ever extradited to Thailand as a criminal suspect.
“This is the first time in 101 years that the U.K. has approved a request,” Police Col. Sinard Ajhanwong told London’s The Telegraph newspapper. “Prior to this case, they had declined to send suspects back to us, so that emphasizes the significance of this case.”
Aldhouse, who went by the stage name The Pitbull as a semi-pro fighter, is accused of stabbing Dashawn Longfellow, 23, outside of his Phuket Island hotel after the two brawled at a nearby bar on Aug. 14, 2010.
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The fight reportedly began after Aldhouse tried to block Longfellow from using the bathroom, the Phuket Gazette said at the time. The Briton was apparently on the losing end of the match, witnesses said, before patrons finally pulled the men apart.
Longfellow, of Colorado, was in Thailand studying martial arts after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and receiving the Purple Heart, according to reports. His Thai girlfriend told local media that she saw Aldhouse stab him twice in the chest after the hotheaded fighter apparently trailed them back to their hotel.
Dashawn Longfellow, 23, of Littleton, Colo., was found dead outside of his Thailand hotel in 2010.
Police set off a manhunt, and Aldhouse was tracked down four days later at Heathrow International Airport in London.
Thai police claim Aldhouse has admitted to stabbing Longfellow, but didn’t intend to kill him, according to the Phuket Gazette.
If found guilty, he faces life in prison.
While a murder charge carries the possibility of execution, British officials only agreed to extradite Aldhouse as long as he didn’t face the possibility of the death penalty, a source told the Daily Mirror.
