SGT. Brenda Winpenny of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – BC on Wednesday confirmed to The VOICE that Matthew Dupre, one of the two alleged contract killers of Indian gangster Jimi Sandhu, who was gunned down in Rawai, Phuket, on February 4, 2022, and who had been extradited to Thailand in May 2023 to face a murder charge, has entered a guilty plea in the case.
He is awaiting sentencing, Winpenny said.
The other alleged contract killer, Gene Lahrkamp, died in a plane crash in northwestern Ontario on April 30, 2022.
Thailand’s National Police Chief Damrongsak Kittiprapas had told the media last year that Dupre is a retired soldier who had spent time in Afghanistan and had worked in the security industry in the Middle Eastern countries. He was charged with premeditated murder, illegal gun possession, and firing a gun.
An Alberta court approved Dupre’s extradition in December 2022. He will not face the death penalty under the terms of the extradition.
Police sources had confirmed to The VOICE in 2022 that Sandhu still had connections here in B.C. even after being deported from Canada in early 2016. He had been suspected of killing Red Scorpions’ gang leader Matthew Campbell, 31, of Abbotsford in January 2014.
Sources said he was aligned with the UN Gang that is in conflict with the Brothers Keepers.
In 2018, Sandhu was jailed in India after India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) busted what it called an international drug syndicate that manufactured the date rape drug, ketamine, worth Rs. 250 million [$5 million] every month. Apparently, when Sandhu was on bail, he left India.
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