The 49-year-old, from Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, was killed in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Kanchanaburi Province in the west of the country.

Thai Police were called to a house - thought to belong to the victim's girlfriend - and found Mr Evans lying face down, with knife wounds to his neck.

A second British man named Shaun Dagnan, 55, was taken to hospital with serious injuries and had an operation on his skull and collarbone.

Thai Police said a sickle knife was recovered at the scene and a 22-year-old man has been arrested.

Police are investigating allegations the suspect may have gone to the house due to loud music being played in the middle of the night.

Authorities had previously said the alleged attacker was a local resident and had been found hiding in the nearby property of a relative, local media reported.

A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: "We are in contact with the Royal Thai Police following the death of one British man and the hospitalisation of another in Thailand and are ready to provide consular support."