Briton Who Faked His Own Death Found Living In Thailand

[Buchholz]

'I've been living a lie for too long': The 53-year-old British father who faked his own death after wife's breast op in Moscow found sleeping rough on Thai airport bench

Weaving his way along a Bangkok street, Stephen Kellaway looks like just another aging hippie enjoying the relaxed Thai lifestyle. In fact, he is a middle-class British psychologist who officially died almost two years ago. The 53-year-old father of two faked his death during a family trip to Moscow, where his wife had breast enlargement surgery, to avoid jail for swindling £50,000 benefits.

Penniless: Kellaway sleeping in the lounge of Bangkok Airport. He travelled the world

on a false passport which he secured using the birth certificate of a dead child - a ruse

inspired by the Frederick Forsyth thriller The Day Of The Jackal

Since then he has been living in Asia, mainly on the proceeds of the £1 million property empire the couple built up in London. The Daily Mail tracked him down to Bangkok, where he was sleeping rough after his payments from the UK had been temporarily halted. There, he admitted: 'I've been lying about who I am for too long. It is a life of constant anxiety and uncertainty.'

The son of an engineer, Kellaway met his third wife, Nelli, in a pub during the mid-1990s when he was running a counselling service in West London. They have a daughter and son aged 11 and nine, who were sent to private school. Kellaway earned £100,000 a year from his practice. He and Nelli, now 42, bought six houses and flats in the South East. To help pay their multiple mortgages and school fees, they fraudulently claimed housing benefit on their property portfolio. Realising the police were closing in, they went on holiday with their children to Russia, where Nelli had her breast operation – and her husband faked his death by bribing a mortuary worker to place his passport on the body of a tramp.

Nelli returned to London with an urn which she said contained Kellaway's ashes. Facing court for the fraud, she convinced a jury that her 'abusive' husband had forced her into it and escaped with a suspended sentence. Meanwhile Kellaway was travelling the world on a false passport which he secured using the birth certificate of a dead child – a ruse inspired by the Frederick Forsyth thriller The Day Of The Jackal.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020364/Ive-living-lie-long-The-53-year-old-British-father-faked-death-wifes-breast-op-Moscow-sleeping-rough-Thai-airport-bench.html#ixzz1TXfysynT

-- dailymail.co.uk 2011-07-30

[Soutpeel]

So one assumes this has now been brought to light the BiB are going to arrrest him and the UK is going to extradite him back to the UK and put him in the nick for fraud ?....

[rich54321]

Another great film coming from this - what a great story - this must be happening all the time - amazing!!!!

[Atmos]

I am disppointed he did not quote one Reginald Iolanthe Perrin as his inspiration.

[bushwacker]

I am surprised he did not want to stick around and see the results of the boob job!

"where his wife had breast enlargement surgery, to avoid jail for swindling £50,000 benefits."

I guess this means the British authorities were looking for a small breasted woman or is it a law in the UK that large breasted woman cannot go to jail?

[Pib]

When on the run and can't decide which country to go hide in, choose Thailand as it's the choice of crooks on the run.

Edited July 30, 2011 by Pib

[Soutpeel]

When on the run and can't decide which country to go hide in, choose Thailand as it's the choice of crooks on the run.

Except for our man in Dubai of course.......

Edited July 30, 2011 by Soutpeel

[Ricardo]

Thailand ... Hub of Farang Reincarnation !

Edited July 30, 2011 by Ricardo

[Thailand]

Thought they had found Lord Lucan!

[Soutpeel]

Thought they had found Lord Lucan!

Didnt you know...Lord Lucan has been living in Pattaya for years and owns a bar and his alter ego is "Glitterman"...

[BKKBrit]

The picture of him at Suvarnabhumi must be staged. There's a picture of him - in Khao San? - in clean togs. The article states he's moved into a guesthouse and then there's the pic of him at the airport. Clean-shaven, neat hair. Does he look like he's been sleeping rough? Looks like he was driven out to the airport and told to pose for the photo for dramatic effect.

What a mug this person is. I trust the British Embassy / Irish Embassy is investigating this?

As for his fake teaching credentials, I suspect there are a whole lot more of these types. Wishful thinking, but I really wish the Thais would get serious about cleaning up who lives and works here.

Edited July 30, 2011 by BKKBrit

[meatboy]

this has got to be another classic,£1mil.prop.empire,benefits from the uk and its all gone in 2years,i wonder how many houses he bought in thailand and he has been ejoying the life of riley, and all the expatts from the uk whose pensions are frozen chuck him in the slammer.[PISSED OFF FARANG]

[Steely Dan]

If he bribes the right people in Thailand he might avoid extradition by dying again, finding an old dead farang for another body double should not be difficult as Pattaya has a steady supply.

[MegaRanter]

I noticed in all the crime/fugitive news, western criminals arrive Thailand with enough records, and the rest get their records in Thailand.

I see a lot of paranoid farangs about in Thailand, some will never relax when they see a strange face. I initially was thinking it could be because I is black, but a smart friend told me that most are on the run and always looking over their shoulders.

[MegaRanter]

If he bribes the right people in Thailand he might avoid extradition by dying again, finding an old dead farang for another body double should not be difficult as Pattaya has a steady supply.

Double jeopardy huh? That would really make him dead jing jing.

[toybits]

There are probably many others who are like him living in Thailand.

[Pib]

There are probably many others who are like him living in Thailand.

Not doubt, for sure! I expect if Bin Laden could do his choice of hidding places over again he would have choosen Thailand.

[DP25]

The picture of him at Suvarnabhumi must be staged. There's a picture of him - in Khao San? - in clean togs. The article states he's moved into a guesthouse and then there's the pic of him at the airport. Clean-shaven, neat hair. Does he look like he's been sleeping rough? Looks like he was driven out to the airport and told to pose for the photo for dramatic effect.

Hard to believe a Daily Mail reporter would engage in such shenagigans

[x5david]

The picture of him at Suvarnabhumi must be staged. There's a picture of him - in Khao San? - in clean togs. The article states he's moved into a guesthouse and then there's the pic of him at the airport. Clean-shaven, neat hair. Does he look like he's been sleeping rough? Looks like he was driven out to the airport and told to pose for the photo for dramatic effect.

What a mug this person is. I trust the British Embassy / Irish Embassy is investigating this?

As for his fake teaching credentials, I suspect there are a whole lot more of these types. Wishful thinking, but I really wish the Thais would get serious about cleaning up who lives and works here.

That would mean eliminating corruption here, unlikely....as long as money talks unsavory characters will always have a haven.

[x5david]

The picture of him at Suvarnabhumi must be staged. There's a picture of him - in Khao San? - in clean togs. The article states he's moved into a guesthouse and then there's the pic of him at the airport. Clean-shaven, neat hair. Does he look like he's been sleeping rough? Looks like he was driven out to the airport and told to pose for the photo for dramatic effect.

What a mug this person is. I trust the British Embassy / Irish Embassy is investigating this?

As for his fake teaching credentials, I suspect there are a whole lot more of these types. Wishful thinking, but I really wish the Thais would get serious about cleaning up who lives and works here.

Neat hair...looks a bit disheveled to me...also appears he may have had a breast enlargement...

[BKKBrit]

The picture of him at Suvarnabhumi must be staged. There's a picture of him - in Khao San? - in clean togs. The article states he's moved into a guesthouse and then there's the pic of him at the airport. Clean-shaven, neat hair. Does he look like he's been sleeping rough? Looks like he was driven out to the airport and told to pose for the photo for dramatic effect.

What a mug this person is. I trust the British Embassy / Irish Embassy is investigating this?

As for his fake teaching credentials, I suspect there are a whole lot more of these types. Wishful thinking, but I really wish the Thais would get serious about cleaning up who lives and works here.

Neat hair...looks a bit disheveled to me...also appears he may have had a breast enlargement...

I did notice that, too but decided to let it go. Maybe it was he who had the boob job and not the wife?

[pete66]

"Kellaway was travelling the world on a false passport which he secured using the birth certificate of a dead child"

may he rest in ... hell.

[jimbeam1]

The picture of him at Suvarnabhumi must be staged. There's a picture of him - in Khao San? - in clean togs. The article states he's moved into a guesthouse and then there's the pic of him at the airport. Clean-shaven, neat hair. Does he look like he's been sleeping rough? Looks like he was driven out to the airport and told to pose for the photo for dramatic effect.

What a mug this person is. I trust the British Embassy / Irish Embassy is investigating this?

As for his fake teaching credentials, I suspect there are a whole lot more of these types. Wishful thinking, but I really wish the Thais would get serious about cleaning up who lives and works here.

Exactly what I thought.

jb1

[a99az]

If he bribes the right people in Thailand he might avoid extradition by dying again, finding an old dead farang for another body double should not be difficult as Pattaya has a steady supply.

If not I am sure the BIB could could soon find a body.

[roc634]

what a surprise! I saw a guy looks like him at the airport about 2 months ago. My gf and I was wondering how he ended like that, why he didn't turn to his embassy. The staffs told us that he had stayed there for some time already.

Edited July 30, 2011 by roc634

[falangjim]

You can't write fiction this amazing! Incredible story. Fake housing claims, fake boobs, fake identity, fake death...fake fake fake. This guy has a serious wake up call coming his way.

[techboy]

If he bribes the right people in Thailand he might avoid extradition by dying again, finding an old dead farang for another body double should not be difficult as Pattaya has a steady supply.

There ya go! Let's start speculating corruption on the part of the Thais. This forum never disappoints. Hey- I witnessed a woman preparing a bowl of noodles at a street market in Maesai the other day. This surely must imply a plot involving police corruption, infringement of human rights and endangered species poaching.

[Atmos]

There ya go! Let's start speculating corruption on the part of the Thais. This forum never disappoints. Hey- I witnessed a woman preparing a bowl of noodles at a street market in Maesai the other day. This surely must imply a plot involving police corruption, infringement of human rights and endangered species poaching.

I think there's even more to it; she was also intending to sell those noodles to farang - at double the price she charges locals! I think she was a hi-so Chinese-Thai with a worthless uni degree, majoring in robbing gullible 70 year old foreigners.

Start some new threads now.

*****

But seriously - a site here for people who do want to 'disappear'

How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever

and a book

How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace

[sirchai]

When on the run and can't decide which country to go hide in, choose Thailand as it's the choice of crooks on the run.

Looks like it’s just the tip of the iceberg…….time for Thais to screen people like this guy out. :jap:

[djlest]

well he wasn't doing much harm was he?

The guys who need screening are the big fish that cause misery and suffering to others via exploitation and greed...

His wife was probably feeding the greed factor