Ahh I’d missed that they’d caught him.
I guess that my point agrees with yours, you can’t really assume anything about the person behind an internet profile.
We can’t know for sure where it comes from. Just because a profile appears to look a certain way I.e in this case Asian, you don’t know it really is, it’s not hard to write in another language, or use a misleading profile picture. VPN’s can mask location. Plenty of Asian people reside in the UK...