THE brother of a man killed in the Bali bombing felt he was staring at his brother's killer when he saw a terrorist suspect on television.

Hambali, whose real name is Riduan Iasamudin, is believed to have been arrested in Thailand and is being interrogated at a secret location.

He is thought to be the operations chief of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the group believed to have been responsible for last year's Bali bombing which killed more than 200.

Bournemouth's Tobias Ellwood, who lost his brother Jonathan in the bombing, said the latest development was more significant than the recent death sentence handed down to one of the bombers, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim.

Mr Ellwood said: "It's in a different league. We're now getting to the heart of the terrorist problem in South East Asia. The 30-odd that have been arrested locally, they made no impression on me whatever. I always knew they were foot soldiers.

"When I saw the picture of Hambali on television and the significance of his arrest, I did feel I was looking at the picture of my brother's killer and that was very emotive."

He said he wanted to see Himbali put on trial in an international court or in Indonesia. "What I don't want to see is this man whisked away to Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay and then to disappear. I think it should be done properly. I think the test of any democracy is how we treat those who don't respect democracy," he said.

Mr Ellwood, a former army captain, added: "I was the one that wore the uniform in my family.

"I was the one that put myself in the position of possibly exposing myself to these circumstances, whether it's been in Bosnia or Kuwait or anywhere else. My brother wasn't. He was a deputy head teacher representing his school and he and all these other people were killed."