August 22 , 2014
Source: Pattaya Smart
The two British-Thai Children who were abducted a while ago are now returned to their british father Robert Day.
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August 22 , 2014
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Det meldes nå at de to thailandsk-britiske skolejentene Annie (11) og Aleena Day (6) er trygt tilbake hos sin britiske far Robert Day
Les hele saken her: Phuketgazette
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August 9 , 2014
Source: phuketgazette
On Tuesday, Pattaya Police were issued an arrest warrant for 36-year-old Onwarat Gamlem, who is the non-custodial mother of the children. The warrant orders police officers around the country to arrest Ms Onwarat on charges of child abduction.
Ms Onwarat, also known by her nicknames “Nok Lek” and “On”, is to be handed over to the Pattaya City Police once arrested.
The children’s father, Robert Day, believes Ms Onwarat may have brought the children to Phuket, Mr Day’s sister, Charlotte Dillow, told the Phuket Gazette. Ms Onwarat once lived in Phuket.
“She met her current husband there, too,” Ms Dillow said.
Ms Onwarat and Mr Day are divorced. A Thai court four years ago gave full custody of the girls, Annie and Aleena, to Mr Day, with no access to Ms Onwarat, reported Pattaya103.com (story here), which broke the story.
Ms Onwarat deserted the children for 18 months when they were very young, said the report.
Mr Day took the children to the UK and has been raising them alone, but allowing them to communicate with their mother online.
When Ms Onwarat did not return them on June 1 as agreed, Mr Day contacted the police, who searched her home and found it empty.
Ms Onwarat is now married to a Norwegian man who left Thailand for work on April 27. The couple have a three-year-old son, Marvin.
Also known by her previous married name Wiganda Day and her maiden name Onwarat Suphikunphong, Ms Onwarat is believed to be in hiding with her three children.
She was seen driving a white Toyota Vios, red plate registration 2995, issued in Chon Buri.
The Gazette notes that the registered address on the arrest warrant marks a residence in Pathum Thani, on the outskirts of Bangkok.
Alternatively, Ms Onwarat may be hiding out in her home province of Ayutthaya, Ms Dillow noted.
Anyone with information about the group’s whereabouts are urged to notify nearest police station or call the police hotline 191.
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August 9 , 2014
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En sønderknust britisk far ber om norsk hjelp til å finne sine to døtre som ble bortført i Pattaya i juni. En nordmann er kronvitne, og vet trolig hvor jentene befinner seg.
67 dager er gått siden de to thailandsk-britiske skolejentene Annie (11) og Aleena Day (6) ble meldt savnet i Pattaya, Thailand. I alle dager siden den gang har deres far, Robert Day, fra Kent i England fortvilt forsøkt å finne dem. Han har brukt tiden til å henge opp plakater av de savnede døtrene og spørre tilfeldige om noen kan ha sett døtrene, men så langt til ingen nytte.
Politiet har etterlyst Onwarat Suphikunphong Gamlem i forbindelse med det politiet mener er en bortføring av de to jentene. Onwarat Gamlem er jentenes biologiske mor, og hun ble skilt fra Robert Day for fire år siden. Day ble tilkjent foreldreretten i forbindelse med skilsmissen, og jentene har siden den gang bodd i England.
Etter skilsmissen ble Onwarat Gamlem kjæreste med en nordmann, Tor-Eivind Gamlem, fra Møre og Romsdal. De har også fått et barn sammen som nå er tre år. De bodde en stund i Norge før Onwarat flyttet tilbake til Thailand der Gamlem jevnlig besøker henne. Han har en arbeidssituasjon som gjør det mulig for ham å besøke sin thailandsk-norske familie uker av gangen.
Ring meg, Tor, sier fortvilt far til bortførte jenter
Selv om de to jentene er blitt britiske, mente faren at de ikke hadde noe vondt av å få vite mer om sitt thailandske opphav. De reiste derfor på en ferie til Pattaya, og landet i Bangkok 25. mai med tanke på å tilbringe en tre ukers ferie der. Robert avtalte med Onwarat at hun kunne tilbringe litt tid med døtrene. Han ante fred og ingen fare, selv da hun ringte ved to-tiden om ettermiddagen 2. juni for å fortelle at de ble litt forsinket til avtalen om å returnere jentene. Tiden gikk, han ble mistenksom, og brått opphørte all telefonforbindelse. Han sendte sms-er, men fikk ikke svar. Da reiste han til leiligheten hennes, og fikk sjokk. Leiligheten var fraflyttet.
Forsvinningen ble politianmeldt, men thailandsk politi har ikke greid å finne henne. Hun har kastet sim-kort, og det ikke mulig å spore henne elektronisk gjennom telefon eller bankkort.
I følge den informasjonen thailandsk politi har gitt til Robert Day, ankom Tor-Eivind Gamlem Thailand 5. juli. På immigration-kortet han fylte ut på flyet, er et hotellnavn oppført. Politiet har sjekket dette hotellet, men der har han aldri sjekket inn. Både thailandsk politi og Robert Day oppfordrer nå Tor-Eiving Gamlem på det sterkeste å melde seg. Han er ikke mistenkt for noe kriminelt, men ut fra omstendighetene tror både jentenes far og thailandsk politi at han sitter på viktig informasjon om hvor jentene befinner seg.
En sønderknust far forteller dette til denne bloggen: – Jeg håper intenst at nordmannen melder seg. Han er mitt siste håp. Det er 67 dager siden jeg mistet jentene mine. Vi har ikke snakket sammen eller sms-et siden den gang. Jeg er som dere forstår fryktelig bekymret for hvordan de har det, og jeg er helt sikre på at også de er bekymret for meg En tre ukers ferie er blitt til 11 ukers mareritt. Vær så snill og hjelp meg.
Saken har også hatt vakt betydelig interesse i britiske medier. Hvis noen har informasjon om denne saken, vær vennlig å kontakte undertegnede på denne bloggen, eventuellt epost journalistodd@gmail.com eller Robert Day på følgende epostadresse: robdayis@hotmail.com
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September 29, 2013
Source: ABC News
A former soldier nicknamed Rambo has been arrested after leading a team of highly trained mercenaries across exotic locations in a plot to kill a US drug enforcement agent.
A legal document lodged by the US attorney’s office in New York alleges Joseph Manuel Hunter, also known as Frank Robinson, Jim Riker and Rambo, plotted to carry out the contract killing for $US850,000, and also attempted to import cocaine into the US.
His fellow accused are nicknamed Tay, Nico, Paul and Gerald, the Grand Jury indictment reads.
Two of the team were arrested on Wednesday entering Liberia to allegedly carry out the contract hit, which was given to them by undercover sources for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Simultaneously, Hunter was also taken into custody at the Phuket Country Club by heavily armed Thai police and is expected to arrive in the United States tonight (AEST).
The US attorney’s office alleges he planned the hit and led the team of mercenaries.
Hunter made requests to the undercover sources for silenced weapons, a scoped rifle and the team was also provided with highly specialised latex masks to hide their identities.
Hunter – the central figure of the conspiracy – is a 21-year veteran of the US military who led air assault and airborne infantry squads, as well as trained snipers.
Since leaving the military in 2004 he has arranged for the “murders of multiple people”, the US attorney’s office alleges.
Nico and Paul had served in the armed forces of Germany, while Gerald was a member of Poland’s elite counter-terrorism unit. All three were snipers. Tay, whose real name is Timothy Vamvakias, is a former US Army sergeant and a military police officer who served with Hunter.
The indictment explains that this conspiracy began late last year when Hunter began recruiting members of his team. In January this year Hunter met two people in Thailand who portrayed themselves as Colombian drug dealers to whom Hunter gave his team’s resumes.
They were in fact sources for the US Drug Enforcement Agency and all their conversations on that day and at future meetings were secretly recorded.
In March, Hunter met the fake drug dealers again. He was told that apart from being security for a drug running-organisation he could expect “bonus jobs”, or contract kills.
Hunter told the DEA sources he had undertaken that sort of work before.
Authorities recorded Hunter’s conversation with his team later on the same day. He told the team what their new employers were expecting of them and that they would see “tons of cocaine and millions of dollars”.
He also said they would be doing “assassinations” and that most of the bonus work would be up-close killings because in the cities you do not get long-range shots. Hunter also divulged that he had arranged for two female real estate agents to be killed.
In April, the conspiracy moved to Mauritius where the team provided security for a real eastern European drug-trafficking organisation that had shipped over 200 kilograms of cocaine.
They also provided counter-surveillance on a weapons deal for the fake Colombian drug dealers.
In June they went to the Bahamas to provide surveillance of a massive cocaine haul being loaded onto a plane bound for the US. It was after this job they were offered a contract to kill a DEA agent and a boat captain in Liberia. He replied in an email: “They (the mercenary team) will handle both jobs they just need good tools”.
In July he sent a list of items he would need – two submachine guns with silencers, pistols with silencers, a .308 rifle with a scope and two concealment vests.
Later they would be provided with highly specialised latex masks, which can make the wearer appear from another race.
Finally, in August, Hunter and teammate Vamvakias met up with the fake Colombian dealers to discuss the details of the assassinations, which were again recorded.
Vamvakias told them the team would “have to get up close” and that if his primary weapon malfunctioned he would need the pistols to “hit it hard, hit it fast, make sure it gets done and get the f*** out of there”.
They also asked about how to get into the country without having their passports stamped and they were told they would be flown out in a private plane.
Hunter said the extraction would be “the biggest headache” rather than the “job”.
In all it would take two weeks: one week for surveillance and one week to “make it happen”, he allegedly said.
By this stage two of the team – Paul and Gerald – had backed out of the job.
Hunter said he would arrange for Vamvakias and Nico to do the job together.
Nico is recorded as saying about the “bonus jobs” that “actually for me that’s fun, I love this work”.
On Wednesday this week they arrived in Liberia to allegedly commit the planned murders for hire and were arrested and sent to the US, where they have now been charged.
Paul and Gerald, who had pulled out of the mission, were arrested in Estonia.
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Source: Thailand Family Law Center
Child abduction or “child kidnapping” cases typically occur during a child custody dispute, when one parent flees a legal jurisdiction with a child to avoid the jurisdiction of a particular court. International law and Thailand family law may come into play when a child is abducted from a foreign country and taken to Thailand or when a child is taken from Thailand to a foreign country, or when a child is abducted by a parent within Thailand.
Q: What should I do if my child is abducted and taken to Thailand?
A: The first thing a parent must do if a child has been abducted is to contact a qualified Thailand family law attorney and make a police report. A qualified attorney will assist with filing the necessary complaints with legal authorities. Based on the circumstances of each case, a family attorney may file a police report with the relevant embassy in Thailand, or file a formal request pursuant to the Hague Treaty. A Thai Family Law Attorney can file a court complaint with the Thailand family court. If criminal charges are involved, a criminal complaint may also be required.
Q: Can the Hague Convention on Child Abduction be used in Thailand?
A: The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction provides a procedure for parents who have had their children abducted by the other parent. The Hague Treaty on Child Abduction is executed through the governments of treaty member countries, but normally requires an attorney to file the appropriate documents with the government authority responsible for the retrieval of the child.
Thailand has formally acceded to the convention; however, at this time the proper procedures for acting upon the convention have not been codified into Thai law. This means that the convention, falls into an ambiguous area of Thailand law. In certain cases of child abduction originating in Thailand, wherein the child has been taken to a different that is a Hague connection signatory, a Hague Convention action may be filed through the relevant government authorities of the country. However, in cases where a child has been abducted and taken to Thailand, the aggrieved parents’ remedy may be through obtaining a court order from the Thai family court. Cases need to be examined individually.
Q: What is the procedure for retrieving a child who has been taken to Thailand?
A: In order to retrieve a child that has been abducted by a parent in Thailand, the parent who is seeking the return of the child must established custody rights of the child in Thailand Family Courts. A court order of sole custody can then be used by the aggrieved parent to obtain the return of the child. Such action can be enforced by Thailand court and police officials. Depending on the circumstances, a police complaint may also be necessary.
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Source: Thailand Family Law Center
In the context of Thailand family law, child abduction cases typically occur during a child custody dispute, when one parent flees a legal jurisdiction with any children who are the subjects of the dispute. International law and Thailand family law may come into play when a child is abducted from a foreign country and taken to Thailand, when a child is taken from Thailand to a foreign country, or when a child is abducted by a parent within Thailand.
What should I do if my child is abducted and taken to Thailand?
The first thing a parent must do if a child has been abducted and taken to Thailand is to contact legal authorities, their embassy in Thailand, and an attorney who can help put you in touch with family law attorneys in Thailand.
Can the Hague Convention on Child Abduction be used in Thailand?
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction provides a procedure for parents who have had their children abducted by the other parent. The Hague Treaty on Child Abduction is executed through the governments of treaty member countries, but normally requires an attorney to file the appropriate documents with the government authority responsible for the retrieval of the child.
Thailand has formally acceded to the convention; however, at this time the proper procedures for acting upon the convention have not been codified into Thai law. This means that the convention, like a variety of other Thai legal subjects, falls into the “grey area” of Thailand law. For this reason, parents are encouraged to pursue their cases in the Thailand courts in the procedure outlined below.
What is the procedure for retrieving a child who has been taken to Thailand?
There is a great deal of misinformation stating that parental abduction in Thailand is not considered a crime under Thai law, and cannot be prosecuted. This is technically not true.
In order to retrieve a child that has been abducted by a parent in Thailand, the parent who is seeking the return of the child must seek full custody of the child in Thailand Family Courts. Once full custody has been obtained, a parent may use the Courts to issue a demand that the abducting parent attend Thai Court and return the child.
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Salina, NY — A Salina girl, abducted by her father in 2007, has returned home after being found safe in Thailand, according to Onondaga County sheriff’s deputies.
Deonna Shipman, now 8, was found in Bangkok last month with her father, Jeffery Shipman, 51, who did not have custody of the girl, said Sgt. John D’Eredita.
Jeffery Shipman was found Feb. 24 and arrested on an FBI warrant on international parental kidnapping charges, D’Eredita said. He was arraigned in Los Angeles. Shipman had been on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
Deonna Shipman has been returned to Onondaga County and is healthy, D’Eredita said. Her mother, Lioubov Shipman has been studying nursing in Russia, said Sheriff Kevin Walsh.
The sheriff said Lioubov Shipman had given up her apartment here, but still had items in storage. He didn’t know if she had other family in the area.
Lioubov Shipman is on her way back from Russia to reunite with her daughter.
Jeffery Shipman is being held by US Marshals and will eventually be sent back to Onondaga County to face charges, deputies said.
The FBI is handling the case, with deputies assisting.
Walsh said that deputies tracked the Shipmans to the Rochester airport after their disappearance in July 2007. When deputies found out that the Shipmans’ destination was England, they got the FBI involved, Walsh said.
He did not know how the FBI tracked them down in Thailand.
Read our coverage of this story from 2007:
• Deputies seek Salina dad, daughter who are missing
• FBI to compare missing Salina girl’s DNA with Texas body
• Father may have fled country with girl, investigators say
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Phuket Boy Ricardo Among Rising Number of Abductions
By Chutima Sidasathian,Phuketwan Friday, July 1, 2011
PHUKET: Figures show the number of British children abducted by a parent and taken abroad is increasing, with Thailand a favored destination. Pakistan and India rank first and third in numerical terms, sandwiching Thailand. The Foreign Office said that 161 children had been taken over the past 12 months to countries that are outside an international treaty designed to ensure the return of wrongfully removed minors.
On Phuket, parental abduction is known to be an issue. The most prominent case has been the twice-abducted Ricardo Choosaneh, a nine-year-old first taken by his Thai mother from his father in the Netherlands, then taken from Phuket by his foster mother earlier this year. His mother, Sumetra Choosaneh, told Phuketwan in an interview in Bangkok in March that she planned to go to Europe to regain her boy – but through the courts this time.
Khun Sumetra and her family say that the father has never been a good provider and continues to use possession of the boy as a means to extract money from others and to gain government housing in the Netherlands. Britain’s Foreign Office admitted that true figures on abductions are likely to be much higher because many cases go unreported. AFP reported that although Pakistan, Thailand and India topped the list of nations involved, there were cases in another 94 countries that are outside the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne told the news agency: ”Finding a solution can be especially difficult if a child has been taken to a non-Hague country as there are no international systems in place to help you. This is why prevention is so important.” The Phuket case of young Ricardo has brought international attention, with a television show in the Netherlands encouraging support from viewers for the boy’s father, Michael Roland van Alphen. However, Khun Sumetra and her family maintain that Phuket-born Ricardo, abducted twice in the space of nine months, should never have been snatched on the second occasion by foster mother Kimberley Ching-Yong because the boy’s future is brighter on Phuket.
Only a court, having listened carefully to both sides, can settle the matter with the best interests of the child to the fore. As Sharon Cooke, advice line manager for Reunite International Child Abduction Centre, told AFP: ”The psychological impact on children can be traumatic and for the left-behind parent, the shock and loss are unbearable, particularly if they don’t know where their child is.”
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