Lee Aldhouse a British Muay Thai fighter living and training in the Rawai district of Phuket, Thailand is being hunted by police as the prime suspect in the murder of former US Marine Deshawn Longfellow, a veteran of both the Afghanistan and Iraq war. (Longfellow was also the recipient of two Purple Hearts).

According to local papers, Aldhouse got into an altercation with Deshawn Longfellow a US Marine who was in Phuket to rest and learn martial arts following a combat injury he sustained in Afghanistan, when Longfellow was at a bar to pick up his girlfriend after her shift.

A fight between the ensued when Aldhouse blocked Longfellow from entering the rest room. According to eye witnesses Longfellow get’s the better of Aldhouse, the fight got broken up and they headed their separate ways.

Aldhouse apparently felt humiliated and according to reports - later decided to follow Longfellow home to take revenge. 

Longfellow’s girlfriend said that Aldhouse attacked Longfellow as he was entering his apartment; Longfellow died from multiple stab wounds from a knife that Aldhouse had taken earlier from a local store.

According to the local press reports - Aldhouse who is also known as Lee "The Pitbull" Aldhouse was scheduled to fight Jomhod at the reopening of the Bangla stadium last year, but pulled out due to an injury. Aldhouse, hasn't fought professionally since March 2009.

According to the Phuket Gazette - Danny Avison, who worked at the gym where Aldhouse trained and fought, said the Brit had a reputation for fighting dirty. "He came here with an English girl in 2006. He was massive; he was obviously a steroid junky and said he had been working as a bouncer in Spain," Avison told the Gazette. "In his first fight for [the gym], he knocked the guy down and then dived on him and tried to bite his ear off."