In connection with the death of Thai wife in Yorkshire twenty-six years earlier, a British citizen was sought.
PUBLISHED: 1 Feb 2025 at 17: 27
A resource with the Immigration Officers claims that a 62-year-old American man is re-entryd after killing his Thai woman in his native country over the course of 20 years.
David Stuart Armitage, wanted by regulators in the United Kingdom for the murder of his wife, Lamduan Seekanya, in 2004, was arrested on Jan 23 in Muang city of Kanchanaburi.
He was taken to Bangkok’s multiculturalism office, where he was then taken to board a plane to London. He was detained by North Yorkshire officers upon arrival at Heathrow Airport.
Lamduan’s body was found in a torrent in the Yorkshire Dales on Sept 20, 2004. Trekkers found her figure near Pen-y-ghent, about 65 km north of Leeds.
She could not be identified after an autopsy revealed she had died about three weeks prior to the body’s identification. Local people paid for her cremation in a cemetery in Horton-in-Ribblesdale. Citizens nicknamed her” The Lady of the Hills” because no one knew who she was at the time.
Due to advancements in investigative technologies, investigators were eventually able to compile a more in-depth picture of the victim. They came to the conclusion that she had been murdered.
When Lamduan’s families in Udon Thani read a BBC article about the situation in 2019, they realized the girl might be their child, who vanished in 2004. DNA tests confirmed Lamduan’s identification.
Her mother, Chumsi, recently said Lamduan worked in a Thai restaurant in England. Lamduan frequently called home to tell her that her father frequently abused her before she disappeared.
In Chiang Mai in June 1990, Lamduan met Mr. Armitage while he was instructing English. They were married in Bangkok in January 1991, and they relocated to the UK in July that time.
Before her passing, they had two kids and lived in northern England. After his family vanished, Mr. Armitage returned to Thailand and began teaching English at a school in Kanchanaburi.
Authorities pose with David Armitage, 62, wanted by UK government for the death of his Thai family, Lamduan Seekanya, in 2004, after his imprisonment in Muang city of Kanchanaburi on Jan 23. ( Police photo )