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AN Irish fugitive wanted for drug offences in Australia has been caught in Thailand — after using a dead man’s passport for ten years.
Paul Noel Casey, 46, bought the forged passport on the black market when he fled to southeast Asia to evade arrest for dealing ecstasy in Sydney in 2015, it’s alleged.
He posed as Alan Murray, an Irishman who has been dead since 2016, and settled down on the tropical island of Koh Pha Ngan — home of the Full Moon Party — where he ran a burger bar.
And in an apparent nod to his former life, the drug suspect called his signature burger ‘The Aussie’.
But Casey’s secret existence fell apart when tourists from New South Wales recognised him and alerted the Australian Federal Police in June 2023 that he was hiding on the Thai island.
The fake passport was in the name of a dead man, Alan Murray
His fake Irish passport was also seized.
The Hua Hin Provincial Court has now sentenced Casey to more than 30 years behind bars for passport forgery, using a fake passport, and overstaying in Thailand for over a decade.
The court said Casey showed “a blatant disregard for the law, impacting national security and international relations”.
Casey is now locked up in a hell-hole Asian prison.
Police Captain Aroon Moosikim, who spearheaded the case, said Casey first entered Thailand in 2015 — the same year he vanished ahead of his Oz drug dealing trial.
The cop added: “The suspect was using a fake passport to live in Thailand for a long time.
“He had a good life on the Full Moon Party island. But it was only when someone recognised him that he was he detected. Then the game was over.”
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