BANGKOK (AP) — A British man wanted on suspicion of murdering a former U.S. Marine has arrived in the resort town of Phuket for trial in what Thai police said Sunday is the first-ever case of extradition of a criminal suspect from Britain to Thailand.

Police Col. Sinard Ajhanwong, commander of Thai Interpol Region 3, said that Britain had formerly declined to send suspects back under a 1911 extradition treaty. Lee Aldhouse, now 29, was arrested when he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London after fleeing Thailand in 2010.

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