Chumporn parents in heartfelt appeal: Please find our long lost daughter who ran off with an Aussie

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

CHUMPORN: -- Two aging parents in Chumporn have appealed to the media for help after their daughter married an Australian man and has not been heard from for the last thirteen years.

 

Suthin and Wijit Kaewkroot, 74 and 66 respectively, don't know whether their daughter Pensiri, who would now be 43, is alive or dead.

 

Reporters from Thai Rath caught up with the couple yesterday at their ramshackle one story home in Tha Se district just 20 kilometers from the Myanmar border.

 

Suthin said that the couple had four children. The three eldest, all boys had married. Pensiri was their youngest child.

 

She left home in 1991 and went to work in a restaurant in Phuket and later became a hotel manageress. She met Simon Beckett St Felix Gibbons, now 50, who was a dive instructor on the island.

 

Pensiri invested in his firm that included a dive business and CCTV retail. At that time the couple visited home regularly.

 

But in 2003 the business hit rocky times when the couple were conned by a foreign man who had also invested and the couple decided to go to Australia to start again.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Interestingly the Australian man left his Krung Thai bankbook with the couple by mistake - it contains 30,000 baht to this day.

 

The couple soon got married in Australia and sent plenty of wedding pictures. Contact to the parents was regular in letters and phone calls in the first two years or so they were in Australia.

 

Then all contact abruptly ceased and there has been none in the last 13 years.

 

Suthin said his wife and Pensiri's mother has a heart condition brought on by the worry of not knowing what happened to their daughter.

 

They reported the matter to Tha Se police last year but have heard nothing since.

 

They begged the reporters to help contact embassies and government agencies on their behalf as they are poor and have no idea how to contact the couple. And they do not have the wherewithal to make a search.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-06-13

No contact for so long ?

Unfortunately, it doesn't look good for the old pair.

Here's hoping I am wrong.

A family that needs help come on TV posters down under you can do this, lets have a happy ending for a change.

The Australian government agencies should be able to locate this guy from SS records, banking or similar ....

The couple need to write to the Government, I'm sure someone in the Australian embassy could assist.

 Their choice to drop contact,

up to them to initiate contact

no body else,

 

Not sure why they left for so long to fester without doing something,

I would start the search with a Facebook and other social media,

enlist the help of someone who's savvy in researching those apps

and go form there, and if the Aussie embassy in BKK will not help

write to any government department in Australia and ask for

information, if he's an Aussie, someone would know where he's....

Someone needs to contact the Australian Embassy in Bangkok. They have the means to track this guy down. My wife is a senior civil servant in a District Office and aThai/Australian lady showed up one day destitute at 55 and a little mentally ill. She said her Aussie husband divorced her 10-12 years earlier and left her destitute. She had worked as a Nurse in Australia. My wife contacted the Australian Embassy in Bangkok and within 3 days they had talked with her ex-husband, so I'm sure they can locate this girls husband, if not the girl. So, one of you Aussie guys forward this info to your embassy.

Edited June 12, 20179 yr by tomwct

1 hour ago, tomwct said:

Someone needs to contact the Australian Embassy in Bangkok. They have the means to track this guy down. My wife is a senior civil servant in a District Office and aThai/Australian lady showed up one day destitute at 55 and a little mentally ill. She said her Aussie husband divorced her 10-12 years earlier and left her destitute. She had worked as a Nurse in Australia. My wife contacted the Australian Embassy in Bangkok and within 3 days they had talked with her ex-husband, so I'm sure they can locate this girls husband, if not the girl. So, one of you Aussie guys forward this info to your embassy.

For sure, the embassy could seek assistance from government officials in Australia and track them down, but that does not mean they will pass on anything about them or their contact details.  There could be one of a million perfectly valid reasons why they have chosen to cease contact.

2 hours ago, tomwct said:

Someone needs to contact the Australian Embassy in Bangkok. They have the means to track this guy down. My wife is a senior civil servant in a District Office and aThai/Australian lady showed up one day destitute at 55 and a little mentally ill. She said her Aussie husband divorced her 10-12 years earlier and left her destitute. She had worked as a Nurse in Australia. My wife contacted the Australian Embassy in Bangkok and within 3 days they had talked with her ex-husband, so I'm sure they can locate this girls husband, if not the girl. So, one of you Aussie guys forward this info to your embassy.

What about the runaway couples right to privacy? We have no idea what really happened. Could be that the parents are horrible. On the other hand, could be that something horrible has happened to the couple. 

 

Edited June 13, 20179 yr by hobz

2 hours ago, leeneeds said:

 Their choice to drop contact,

up to them to initiate contact

no body else,

 

Exactly. Maybe they don't want to be found.

The three sons are probably feckless, neither providing for their parents nor providing care. I would suspect at least one to have an alcohol or drug problem.

 

The daughter on the other hand certainly hit the jackpot by emigrating to Australia.

 

The fact the parents are living in a "ramshackle" home suggests they are struggling.

 

It is impossible the daughter has forgotten her parents so she is either dead or has chosen not to keep in touch.

Someone from the Diving Instructor world must know him. That's a pretty close knit bunch even in Australia.

hmmm......curiouser and curiouser. Blardy ozzies seem to be hogging the news at the mo.... hmmm

23 minutes ago, mstevens said:

For sure, the embassy could seek assistance from government officials in Australia and track them down, but that does not mean they will pass on anything about them or their contact details.  There could be one of a million perfectly valid reasons why they have chosen to cease contact.

They won't pass their details on as it is against privacy laws in Australia.  The can only let him know that the mother in law is looking for them.

Good news!

 

She has been found alive and well living in Australia.  She has re-married.

 

Her contact details have been passed on to the relevant authorities and newspaper to follow up.

 

Cheers

 

BB

try facebook

The Australian embassy is the place to go. Hope that someone can relate this message to these folks.

Took 5 minutes to locate, has 2 kids and since remarried.

I wonder why she lost contact then. So unlike the Thai's. Family always first.

Load of twaddle and there is a reason why nothing for 13 years and they probably need cash.

Buffalo sick again?

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

The Australian government agencies should be able to locate this guy from SS records, banking or similar ....

The couple need to write to the Government, I'm sure someone in the Australian embassy could assist.

There is a good chance they cant read or right nor speak English. 

 

34 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

The three sons are probably feckless, neither providing for their parents nor providing care. I would suspect at least one to have an alcohol or drug problem.

 

The daughter on the other hand certainly hit the jackpot by emigrating to Australia.

 

The fact the parents are living in a "ramshackle" home suggests they are struggling.

 

It is impossible the daughter has forgotten her parents so she is either dead or has chosen not to keep in touch.

Because they are poor they are bad ? Is that what you are saying. If my child should disappear for so long I would also be out of my mind with worry and if ny time comes close I would like to see the child again or get closure. Your rant about money reflect your own personality not theirs.

7 minutes ago, Toshiba66 said:

I wonder why she lost contact then. So unlike the Thai's. Family always first.

money

54 minutes ago, hobz said:

What about the runaway couples right to privacy? We have no idea what really happened. Could be that the parents are horrible. On the other hand, could be that something horrible has happened to the couple. 

 

I'm sure if the embassy found them and contacted them and they did not want to contact her parents, the embassy would

respect their wishes. I would hope the embassy would tell the parents they are alive and well though!

25 minutes ago, wvavin said:

The Australian embassy is the place to go. Hope that someone can relate this message to these folks.

correct,   someone who has a thai wife and can explain their problem to the staff .... is there any farang on TV from that area that can help  ?

3 hours ago, leeneeds said:

 Their choice to drop contact,

up to them to initiate contact

no body else,

 

In a free society, yes.

There are a million reasons why she would not contact family. None of them include foul play. 

3 hours ago, leeneeds said:

 Their choice to drop contact,

up to them to initiate contact

no body else,

 

Your right, but only if this was voluntary, and we dont know that. They could have had an accident, the guy could have killed his wife ect. 

 

*did not read the rest she is alive and re married.. means she choose not to contact*

Edited June 13, 20179 yr by robblok

52 minutes ago, Thechook said:

They won't pass their details on as it is against privacy laws in Australia.  The can only let him know that the mother in law is looking for them.

When humans are involved with things their are no privacy laws (wait till the next bbq gathering)

1 hour ago, Badbanker said:

Good news!

 

She has been found alive and well living in Australia.  She has re-married.

 

Her contact details have been passed on to the relevant authorities and newspaper to follow up.

 

Cheers

 

BB

Source please

1 hour ago, daboyz1 said:

Exactly. Maybe they don't want to be found.

Yes also agree, maybe like a few people that come here, 

maybe she got sick of being badgered by family especially when they fell on hard times & had to start again

Then I like how they say ran of with Aussie to make sure they knew where to be found

If there was any foul play I'm sure all the government procedures would have to be followed

& don't come back to me about the daughter not being badgered who has the goose with the golden egg (seen year on year)