TRACKS DOWN BOY HE SAYS WAS ABDUCTED BY EX-WIFE
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on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. But Jintra and Joleon never returned.
Jodie and Lidia reported Joleon missing to Police Scotland when he first vanished.
They did not launched a missing person’s investigation as Thailand is out of their jurisdiction.
In desperation, he turned to Felton, who brought his own son Jobe home after he taken to Thailand by his former wife. Lidia said: “When they called me and told me he has been taken to prison.”
Jodie, a carer, met his estranged wife at the end of 2006 when he went travelling for a year.
The couple f lew back to the UK when she was seven months pregnant with Joleon.
Things started to go wrong when their son was two-and-a-half.
In an interview just before his son disappeared, he said: “Jintra started
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going out. On a few occasions she turned her phone off and disappeared for a weekend, with no explanation.
“I couldn’t live like that so I told her one morning before I went to work. When I got home, she had packed her things and left the house with Joleon.”
The couple have been separated for six and a half years and shared custody.
Until November 30, Joleon was co-parented spending, on average, five nights a week with Jodie and his grandmother Lidia and two nights a week with his mother.
Smith went to Edinburgh Sheriff Court on February 5 where he was awarded full custody of his son.
Edinburgh West MP Christine Jardine said: “I have been speaking to the family and the Foreign Office, who are offering advice and support.
“My priority is to ensure Jodie gets the proper and crucial assistance available through our consulate.”
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are prov id ing consular assistance to the family of a British national arrested in Thailand and are in contact with the Thai authorities.”