Mail from St Kilda washes up after 10 years
Sebastian Marroquin, 43, the son of the Colombian drug baron thought to be behind 3,000 murders, is furious with Phillip Witcomb, who is 12 years his senior and claims to be his brother.
In a video chat from his home in Argentina, Sebastian – who is a public speaker and architect – told the Daily Mirror: “My father told me he’d forced the abortion of one of his mistresses so there are no sons outside of his marriage.
“This is the third guy in the world who claims to be the first-born. I’m used to this kind of crazy guy.”
But British painter Phillip insists he was Escobar’s secret son who was adopted. The 55-year-old, who lives in Mallorca, claims his birth name is
Roberto Sendoya Escobar and he was rescued by a British secret agent.
He claims his real father made several attempts to kidnap him after he was sent to an English boarding school.
But Sebastian – who changed his name after his father’s death in 1993 – says there are holes in Phillip’s story.
“He said his father was working for MI6 to bring my father to the authorities. But my father would have been 16 then – he wasn’t the head of a cartel, he was a farmer and a student,” Sebastian said.
He is also raging over the way hit Netflix drama Narcos glamorises his father’s crimes.
Sebastian said: “Narcos is glorifying my father. I receive 3,000 messages every single day on social media. Most of the
POSTCARDS tucked away on a commemorative boat 10 years ago have been found more than 1,000 miles away in Norway.
The mail was sent to sea from remote St Kilda to mark 80 years kids send me pictures with the tattoos, the T-shirts about my father.
“A regular message I receive is, ‘I watch Narcos and I want to be like your father, it’s so cool’. I invite them to realise this is just fiction… they don’t show some experiences that we actually lived.”
Escobar was fatally shot in the head after escaping prison and spending 18 months on the run – during which time a teenage Sebastian joined him. He recalled: “We were in hiding with my father and had $4million dollars in cash but we were starving because we did not have the freedom to buy a couple of bottles of water or a piece of bread.
“I can’t tell you where because my father would bind our own eyes just for security reasons. We went without food
WAR Colombian forces hunt Escobar in 1993 since the evacuation of the island, 40 miles off the Outer Hebrides.
To mark the anniversary in August 2010, National Trust for Scotland archaeologist Ian McHardy built a boat resembling the original St Kilda mailboats. It was kitted out with postcards to seven people – including Prince Charles – and launched.
Four children discovered the boat in Andoya, northern Norway, in April. The postcards, still in perfect condition, were sent on.
Mr McHardy said: “I was really excited to find out it had travelled all the way to Norway. I had kind of given up hope of it being found.”