A British tourist has been arrested for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl in Thailand after he was traced by UK cops.
Luke Adam Lawrence, 30, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, was identified by sleuths at the National Crime Agency (NCA) in London over an alleged video of a schoolgirl being abused.
Officers worked with local cops and tracked Lawrence to the seaside ‘Sin City’ resort of Pattaya where he was living with a Thai girlfriend.
Armed police stormed into his rented home at the Private Paradise Pattaya condominium block on Tuesday morning, December 3.
Footage shows Lawrence emerging from the bedroom shirtless followed by his partner in a light blue silk nightie. A translator in a blue denim jacket was present, reading the charges to the suspect.
Police ordered Lawrence to kneel before he confirmed his name. He reacted by saying ‘what, woah, wow’ as the charges were read out.
Reading from the court arrest warrant, the translator says: ‘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.’
