A 43-year-old Briton has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a road rage attack in Thailand which left a Keighley teacher in a coma.

Sean Henry Tinsley has been remanded in custody for the attempted murder of Adam Pickles, 40, after being arrested at Bangkok International Airport.

It is alleged that he attacked Mr Pickles with a wheelbrace after a vehicle incident in which a car was scraped.

Tinsley had left Thailand after the alleged attack on Mr Pickles, a former Bradford Grammar School student, in the resort of Pattaya – 80 miles east of Bangkok.

Tinsley, from Wolverhampton, was arrested on his return late on Friday and remanded in custody on Saturday at Pattaya Provincial Court.

Mr Pickles – who grew up in Riddlesden and is married with a nine- month-old son – is thought to have been attacked following an incident in which he scraped another vehicle while getting out of a parking spot in the resort city.

After six weeks Mr Pickles, the head of English at the Regent’s International School in Pattaya, was brought back home to the UK when a local and international appeal received a massive response for funds.

But the guitar-playing teacher remains in a coma in Leeds General Infirmary. Adam’s parents Andrew, 62, and Adele, 61, had earlier flown to be by his bedside and see their grandson Benjamin for the first time.

Back in Yorkshire, Mrs Pickles said: “We are pleased and relieved at the arrest and we would like to thank the Thai police for their great help, particularly a Lieutenant Colonel Chakring at Banglamuang Police station and his team.

“My husband and I are going through hell daily because of what happened. Our thoughts are with him, his wife, and our nine-month-old grandson.”

Since the incident, police have been studying CCTV footage. Other witnesses have now come forward and given information about the incident outside the Paradise Bar in Soi Khao Noi.

Feelings have been running high in the resort and many organisations have been donating to help Mr Pickles, who formerly taught at the Cathedral School in Wakefield.

On Friday, the Telegraph & Argus revealed how his parents will have to remortgage their home and plunder savings to help cover the costs of his rehabilitation. Mr and Mrs Pickles are taking the financial steps to help pay for the care of their son, nearly two weeks after being flown home from Thailand by specialist air medics.

Adam, 40, suffered a setback this week when the stitches from his original operation became infected and required more surgery.