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Briton poses as rich man to find wife and son
IT WAS a moment he had been waiting six months for. Last week, Mr Sean Felton finally got to kneel down and hold his three-year-old son in his arms.
But the Briton had to go through a lot to get that reunion.
In March, his Thai wife took their son Jobe to Thailand from England without telling him.
Mr Felton had to pose as a rich American playboy on social networking site Facebook and even got the help of the Red Shirts in Bangkok as he searched for Jobe.
Life had seemed good for the decorator-painter, his wife Kim Saowapak and their son, but it turned topsy- turvy one evening in March, the Daily Mail said.
Mr Felton, 43, returned to an empty home in Norton Canes in Staffordshire, England. His wife and son were missing - they had left for Thailand.
He told the Daily Mail: "I came back from work to our home and she and Jobe weren't there."
That was the start of a 9,600km journey to find Jobe.
Mr Felton said he contacted almost everyone, including the Commonwealth Office, the British embassy and the local MP. But nobody could help because his wife and child had already left Britain.
He even hired a private investigator to look for them.
Finally, he decided to look for her on Facebook.
He told the Mirror that after trawling through dozens of Saowapaks, his wife's face popped up.
"I knew she wouldn't accept a friend request from me, so I posed as a millionaire looking for love," the Mirror quoted him as saying.
"I set up a fake account under the alias Matt Young with a picture of a man with a Ferrari and sent her a friend request. She fell for it."
Once he had access to her profile, he launched a plan to contact some of her Facebook friends he had seen in a photograph with her.
IT WAS a moment he had been waiting six months for. Last week, Mr Sean Felton finally got to kneel down and hold his three-year-old son in his arms.
But the Briton had to go through a lot to get that reunion.
In March, his Thai wife took their son Jobe to Thailand from England without telling him.
Mr Felton had to pose as a rich American playboy on social networking site Facebook and even got the help of the Red Shirts in Bangkok as he searched for Jobe.
Life had seemed good for the decorator-painter, his wife Kim Saowapak and their son, but it turned topsy- turvy one evening in March, the Daily Mail said.
Mr Felton, 43, returned to an empty home in Norton Canes in Staffordshire, England. His wife and son were missing - they had left for Thailand.
He told the Daily Mail: "I came back from work to our home and she and Jobe weren't there."
That was the start of a 9,600km journey to find Jobe.
Mr Felton said he contacted almost everyone, including the Commonwealth Office, the British embassy and the local MP. But nobody could help because his wife and child had already left Britain.
He even hired a private investigator to look for them.
Finally, he decided to look for her on Facebook.
He told the Mirror that after trawling through dozens of Saowapaks, his wife's face popped up.
"I knew she wouldn't accept a friend request from me, so I posed as a millionaire looking for love," the Mirror quoted him as saying.
"I set up a fake account under the alias Matt Young with a picture of a man with a Ferrari and sent her a friend request. She fell for it."
Once he had access to her profile, he launched a plan to contact some of her Facebook friends he had seen in a photograph with her.
