DNA sent to UK police in search for Thai woman

DNA sent to UK police in search for Thai woman

Jumsri Sikanya, with her husband, Buasa, by her side, on Jan 25, 2019 shows the picture of her missing daughter, Lamduan, in her left hand and a sketch of a still-unidentified woman whose body was found in Yorkshire, the United Kingdom, in 2004. (Photo by Yuttapong Kumnodnae)
Jumsri Sikanya, with her husband, Buasa, by her side, on Jan 25, 2019 shows the picture of her missing daughter, Lamduan, in her left hand and a sketch of a still-unidentified woman whose body was found in Yorkshire, the United Kingdom, in 2004. (Photo by Yuttapong Kumnodnae)

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has forwarded to the British National Crime Agency (NCA) DNA samples given by the parents of a Thai woman who disappeared in Britain in 2004 after she married a British man and moved to the UK.

The NCA had contacted the DSI through the British embassy in Bangkok, requesting assistance in a British investigation that was seeking to locate a missing woman called Lamduan Armitage, DSI chief Pol Col Paisit Wongmuang said on Wednesday.

The NCA stated said in its request for help that the missing Thai woman could be linked to the discovery about 14 years ago of a corpse of an unidentified Asian woman dumped in the Yorkshire Dales -- a national park in northern England -- he said.

The DSI had located Chumsi and Buasa Sikanya, the parents of Ms Armitage, and asked them to provide DNA samples from them to be sent to the UK for testing against DNA samples taken from the corpse, he said.

In December last year, a relative of Ms Chumsi -- who lives in England -- learned about the discovery of the corpse in Yorkshire from a BBC news report and told Ms Armitage's parents about it.

She told them the corpse could be their daughter and advised them to seek help from a Thai women's association in the UK.

The association went to the British police and told them the missing Ms Armitage could hold the key to unravelling the mystery surrounding the identity of the corpse found in the Yorkshire Dale 14 years ago.

The body was found with a gold band on her wedding ring finger.

The ring was was later traced to Thailand.

Left without anyone coming forward to identify it, the body, called by the people of Horton in Ribblesdale, "The Lady of the Hills", is buried in a plot in the village graveyard.

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