LABUAN: A grandparent accused of having kidnapped two
Australian-born grandchildren claimed he is not financially capable of
looking after them.
Businessman Peter Chin also brushed aside claims by his daughter, Jane
Day,33, that he and her mother Christina Woo had kidnapped the children.
"The children (aged 3 and 4 ) were very happy with us and well taken
care of. Their father ( ex-son-in-law ) did not want them to be with
Jane because she was not financially capable of supporting them," he
claimed.
He described allegations of kidnap as reported in the foreign media as mischievous and intended to embarrass them.
"Kidnapped children normally would not be sent to school but the kids
were schooling in an established school and getting the best of
education," he said.
Chin also revealed that the two grandchildren were no longer here and had left for Hong Kong accompanied by their father.
Day,33, is divorced from the father of the children, Justin, 4, and Alison, 3.
She claimed her parents were holding the children because they
disapproved of her new marriage to Australian national Geoffrey Day.
Day said she had tried to smuggle her children onto a plane during a
recent visit to Labuan, but had been foiled by her parents and the
staff of the school that the children were attending.
She said she feared her parents were planning to help the children's
father, Hong Kong resident Alan Kwong Lun Chan, take the children to
China, where she would have little chance of finding them.
SOURCE: Daily Express Newspaper East Malaysia,
April 5, 2001
By Sohan Das
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