Dead Man Walking - or rather sleeping.

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'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...l#ixzz1TXfysynT

 

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

[philobert]

Who goes to moscow to get breast implants?

 

or was there something else?

 

cheers

 

bert

[pubstud]

I saw him yesterday down the beach road.

[999Baht]

Wow what a story!

Some people will go to any lengths to stay in Thailand!

Love the additional photo Sir Pubstud. haha

[Slapman]

I saw him yesterday down the beach road.

 

 

hahahahahahahahahahahaha, exactley the same pose.

yes it's defo him !.

[AceFromNJ]

Haha in both pics he has that same goofy smirk on his face!

[belmoredave]

Haha in both pics he has that same goofy smirk on his face!

I noticed that to and couldn't help but think it ill be gone now, lol.