A British drug trafficker convicted over a £1million ($1.3million) narcotics ring has been arrested in Thailand after years on the run, police said on Tuesday, in the latest example of global underworld figures using the kingdom as a bolthole. Jonathon Moorby, 47, was detained by Thai police on the popular southern tourist island of Koh Samui on Monday following an investigation by British detectives. The fugitive, nicknamed ‘Mr Big’, has a string of previous drug offences to his name but went on the run in 2014 shortly before an English court sentenced him to 15 years in jail in absentia for conspiracy to supply more than £1million of cocaine and amphetamines.

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