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It was a six-year battle for justice that turned a grieving father into a determined amateur detective and united two families.
Australian man Andrew Oake, was killed in 2010 in a drug-fuelled and racially motivated attack by three Thai men.
On Tuesday, Thai police announced they had arrested the third and final suspect, saying he had confessed to being involved.
"We needed to bring finalisation to this, especially for my granddaughter Angelina, because she continually asks, 'What's going to happen? When are they going to catch the man who killed my daddy," said Andrew Oake's father Rory McDonald.
Mr McDonald has played a major role in bringing about that finalisation, travelling to Cambodia, Macau, New Zealand and making multiple trips to Thailand to track down the men who attacked his 28-year-old son.
"I've spent, personally myself ,well over $100,000 in trying to bring the three suspects to justice and now this has finally come to fruition," Mr McDonald told the ABC, at a police station in Nakhon Ratchasima province, a three-hour drive from Bangkok.
Acting on a tip-off, he travelled to Macau and led police to arrest the second suspect, who was extradited but missed by an Interpol alert and hid in his Thai village.
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-16/andrew-oake-attacker-arrested-after-machete-ambush-in-thailand/8028706
Australian man Andrew Oake, was killed in 2010 in a drug-fuelled and racially motivated attack by three Thai men.
On Tuesday, Thai police announced they had arrested the third and final suspect, saying he had confessed to being involved.
"We needed to bring finalisation to this, especially for my granddaughter Angelina, because she continually asks, 'What's going to happen? When are they going to catch the man who killed my daddy," said Andrew Oake's father Rory McDonald.
Mr McDonald has played a major role in bringing about that finalisation, travelling to Cambodia, Macau, New Zealand and making multiple trips to Thailand to track down the men who attacked his 28-year-old son.
"I've spent, personally myself ,well over $100,000 in trying to bring the three suspects to justice and now this has finally come to fruition," Mr McDonald told the ABC, at a police station in Nakhon Ratchasima province, a three-hour drive from Bangkok.
Acting on a tip-off, he travelled to Macau and led police to arrest the second suspect, who was extradited but missed by an Interpol alert and hid in his Thai village.
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-16/andrew-oake-attacker-arrested-after-machete-ambush-in-thailand/8028706
