A BRITISH man was shot dead in an ambush in Thailand yesterday.
Steven Parkinson, 47, was on his motorbike with a bar girl when four men stopped them in the early hours.
He was hit twice in the head but his passenger was unhurt in the attack near sex resort Pattaya.
The gang also took £300 in cash and gems. Police fear it was revenge after he stopped a thief in 2004 - or that the killers were hired by a bitter ex-lover.
Steven, of Hull, recently split from local girl Siriporn Supatra. Their house is now up for sale.
Police have told her not to leave the area. She insisted: "I don't know who would want to kill Steve. He had no enemies.
"But it wasn't me. We were planning to get back together."