The third and last suspect in the Pattaya “barrel murder” case has been arrested in Vietnam and extradited to South Korea after four months on the run.
The suspect in his 30s was sent home on Tuesday after Vietnamese police arrested him on Sept 12.
The raid in Vietnam took place after South Korean police received information on his hiding place, alerted their Vietnamese partners and travelled to Vietnam for the operation.
Thai police said they believed the man had escaped Thailand to Myanmar after he and two others killed Roh Eui-jong in May.
The killers put the body of the victim in a plastic barrel and dropped it into the Map Prachan reservoir in Chon Buri, near Pattaya.
The two other suspects arrested earlier and extradited to South Korea were Lee Roun, in his 20s, and Lee Yong-jin, 27, according to Thai police.
The motive for the murder remains unclear.
