The defendant accused of the murder of a British Columbian gangster is scheduled to appear in a Bangkok court next month.

It is expected that a former Canadian soldier accused of killing a gangster from British Columbia in Thailand will appear in court in Bangkok in early November.

The online fundraising page for Albertan Matthew Dupre states that he will likely learn the date of his court hearing at a preliminary hearing in November.

Dupre is accused of killing United Nations Organization gangster Jimmy Sandhu, who grew up in Abbotsford, at a beach villa in Phuket, Thailand on February4,2022.

The defense fund raised9,400 dollars

Sandhu, who moved to Canada at the age of seven, was never granted Canadian citizenship and was deported in 2016 for serious criminality.

Earlier, it was revealed that Sandhu's murder was planned in Canada by rival members of the Wolf Pack gang.

Dupre and Jean Larcamp of Trail City are accused by Thai police of flying to Thailand to commit the murder and then leaving the country within days.

Larkamp died in a plane crash in northern Ontario in April 2022.

Dupre, who pleads not guilty, was arrested at his home in Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

Earlier this year, he agreed to return to Thailand without exhausting the extradition process.

His friend Stuart Staudinger, who organized the legal fund, previously told Postmedia that Dupre voluntarily went to Bangkok because he didn't want to languish in a Canadian prison for years fighting for his cause.

The defense fund raised $9,400 of the $100,000 goal.

The latest update on the site indicates that Dupre will likely go to trial in the summer of 2024.

In prison, Dupre spends his days exercising - running around the prison building - and trying to help other inmates learn English, according to the website.

At the same time, a relative of Larkamp purchased his house on the hill overlooking Trail last August - a month after the bank began foreclosure proceedings in the British Columbia Supreme Court due to mortgage default.

By mid-2023, the Larkamp estate owed TD Bank $137,533.89 for the house and large lot at 2000 Lookout Street.

According to the real estate registry, the house was sold to Jessica Larkamp on August 18, 2023, for $352,000.

In December of last year, Postmedia traveled to Thailand to take a closer look at the murder of Sandhu.

Among the evidence presented by the police are surveillance videos from all over the island of Phuket, showing the suspects, records of car and hotel rentals, as well as DNA and fingerprints.