A BRITISH tourist has been arrested over the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl in Thailand and filming the abuse.
The 30-year-old from Leeds, West Yorkshire, was identified by sleuths at the National Crime Agency (NCA) in London over an alleged video of the schoolgirl being abused.
Officers worked with local cops and tracked the Brit to the seaside “Sin City” resort of Pattaya where he was living with a Thai girlfriend.
The Brit was formally arrested over the alleged rape of the young girl, who he is said to have known through a friend.
Thailand’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) issued a media release confirming that the suspect had been identified by the NCA in England over the sexual abuse of the child.
Officers said the investigation was launched when the NCA claimed to have traced child abuse content to the sick man’s phone.
The cops in the UK then leased with officers in Bangkok at the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division.
The Thai police said they analysed the footage of the alleged rape and compared it with different locations in Pattaya and social media posts to find the Brit.
They claim to have identified the victim as a seven-year-old girl who was abused when she was six-years-old.
They believe that the arrested man had connections to the mother of the alleged victim.
An arrest warrant was issued for “raping a minor under the age of 13” and the 30-year-old was caught at 7:15 am.
Armed police stormed into his rented home at the Private Paradise Pattaya condominium block on Tuesday morning.
A translator was present at the arrest, reading the charges to the suspect.
The translator said: “According to the illegal conduct you have done, there has been a charge of rape, statutory rape, of another individual, by force, by threat, by applying threats and force, violent threats and violent force, to a person that was in a position that could not resist, or a person that could not fight back.
“Also, against a minor under the age of 13 years old, which is not your wife, not your legal wife.
“Even if that child did or did not agree, this conduct has been done against a child, that has not reached the age of 13 years old, so even if the child did agree or not agree to that, the child was in a situation where they could not fight back or do anything about that.”
He was then formally arrested, handcuffed and passed to the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division for further legal action.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Kiatkong Thongkham of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division said: “The suspect denied all charges and refused to testify during the arrest. He was detained at the police station.”
Investigating officers later informed the schoolgirl’s mother of the arrest.
They allegedly presented evidence and she filed further complaints to be added to the charge sheet.
