Bangkok police chief Lt-General Sanit Mahathaworn said a key eyewitness who flew in from abroad was an “important piece of the jigsaw” in the investigation into the death of a man whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Bangkok last month.

THE ALLEGED leader of a passport forgery gang, who was arrested along with two other Americans during a police raid in Bangkok on Friday, has been identified as Herbert Grey Lefron, 63, from Baltimore, Maryland, Tourist police chief Pol Maj-General Surach