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Five years on the run ends, arrested in Pattaya
Report from Bangkok Post dated Tuesday 6 June 2006 :-
Five years on the run ends, arrested in Pattaya
A Thai woman who also holds British citizenship has been arrested five years after she fled Britain where she was convicted of human trafficking and forced prostitution.
Onjira Jitprasert, 50, was arrested at a bar called The Office Girl in Pattaya on Friday.
She will be extradited to Britain to serve a jail term, Pol Maj-Gen Wut Liptapanlop, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau, said yesterday.
The woman, also known as Angela Miller, obtained British nationality by marrying Briton Ronald Miller. She and her husband were arrested in Britain in July 2000. They were charged with trafficking Thai women and forcing them to work in her brothels in Leicester and Northampton from January 1991 until November 1998 to pay them back for helping them get to England.
She was released on bail. Although her British passport was seized, she used her Thai passport to flee to Thailand and went into hiding until she was arrested on Friday.
Onjira was sentenced in absentia to three-and-a-half years imprisonment by the British court. Her husband received a four-year term.
Pol Maj-Gen Wut said Ms Onjira would the first Thai woman to be extradited for human-trafficking. After serving her term in Britain, police would seek her return to prosecute her for violating Thai immigration, prostitution and criminal laws.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork
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