Thai investigators arrested the British husband of a woman who was murdered 21 years ago in the Yorkshire Dales.
According to Thai Media, David Armitage, 62, is held by immigration officials in the city of Kanchanaburi because of a problem with his visa.
The case of his wife Lamduan Seekanya confused the police for almost twenty years after her half -naked body was found in a stream at a beauty place in the Yorkshire Dales. Her murder has remained a mystery.
Fifteen years after she was discovered by hikers, she was not identified and was buried in a graveyard with only the name 'Lady of the Hills' engraved on her tombstone.
She was never given up by her husband.
If Mr. Armitage is deported, the police of North Yorkshire who investigate the cold case will finally be able to talk to him about his wife.
This is just over a year after he refused to speak with police officers who had flown to Thailand in February 2023.
He had agreed to talk to them, but canceled at the last minute.
David Armitage, a British university teacher, refused to meet British investigators who flew to Thailand this week to interrogate about the death of his Thai wife Lamduan Seekanya
The body of his Thai wife Lamduan Seekanya (photo), 36, was found in 2004 half naked in a stream at a beauty place in the Yorkshire Dales – but her identity was still unknown for fifteen years
Lamduan's body was found at this place in September 2004 by hikers in the Yorkshire Dales. A torn bra was found that hung on her arm. Nobody in Great Britain gave her up as missing and she was buried in a graveyard with only the name 'Lady of the Hills' engraved on her tombstone
Lamduan, 36, lived with David and their two young children in the house of his parents in Burton-in-in-mind, Cumbria when she disappeared in 2004.
Her parents, the Seekanyas, gave up their daughter a few weeks after her disappearance as missing at the Thai police, but it is not assumed that the information was passed on to the British authorities.
Mr. Armitage apparently did not report a loss of his wife. He told the children of the couple that Lamduan had left him for another man, the family says.
Joomsri believes that Mr. Armitage could answer questions from the family about the last days of their daughter, but says he did not visit them.
From what Lamduan told her mother, she believes that the marriage of the Armiighages was in trouble.
Mr. Armitage met his wife in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, where he taught English in 1990.
They married within a few months and then moved to Great Britain, where their two children, George and Charlena, were born. Lamduan already had an older son, Khwan, from an earlier marriage, who now lives in Belfast.
Lamduan met Mr. Armitage in 1990 while working as a teacher in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They moved to Great Britain and lived with his parents in Burton-in-in-mind, Cumbria, when she disappeared. The family is depicted outside their house in rugby, Warwickshire
After the disappearance of Lamduan, Mr. Armitage (in the photo with his daughter Charlena) returned to Thailand and settled in Kanchanaburi, near the Burmese border, where the classic film by David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, took place.
Lamduan's mother Joomsri remembered that the son of Mr. Armitage, George (in the photo with his father), arrived at her home in 2016 hoping to be able to make contact with his mother before his marriage. Joomsri said she hadn't heard from his mother for years and feared she was dead
After the disappearance of Lamduan, Mr. Armitage returned to Thailand and settled in Kanchanaburi, near the border with Burma, where the classic film by David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, took place.
He teaches English for business at Rajabhat University of the city and repeatedly denied any involvement in the murder of Lamduan, despite a whisper campaign in some parts of the Thai media.
When he spoke with the media in 2019, he kept full: “I didn't kill my wife. Absolutely not. “
He acknowledged that there had been insinuations about his involvement in the case in the Thai media and added: 'I know the conclusions are there, but I will continue with my life. It's a long time ago. “
He also said earlier that he would cooperate in every investigation.
She was discovered by hikers with her face down in a stream, only dressed in socks and jeans. A torn bra hung on her left arm. A T-shirt was found in the neighborhood and shoes have never been found.
Investigators think that Lamduan was discovered three weeks before her body was discovered
The Seekanyas, Joomsri (right) and Buasa (left), gave their daughter a few weeks after her disappearance in 2004 missing the Thai police, but heard nothing about her residence
Joomsri (photo), 76, spoke with detectives from North Yorkshire who flew over the business to Thailand
Due to the advanced state of dissolution, pathologists could not determine the cause of death, but they excluded stabs, trauma with blunt power and shot wounds.
A possible cause was hypothermia, but despite the fact that she was wearing such thin clothing and no shoes, the police decided that her death was not suspected.
Medical experts discovered that she was of Southeast Asian descent and a coroner did an open judgment.
On her tombstone, paid by the locals in Ribblesdale, it says: 'The female of the hills. Found on September 20, 2004. Name not known. Rest in peace. “
