A SEARCH for a British youth who disappeared from Pattaya on Sep. 26 and was later stopped from crossing over to Myanmar from Three Pagodas Pass in Kanchaburi is underway as it is feared he has been lured to work for call centre criminals, Naewna newspaper said this evening (Oct. 2).
Kanchanaburi Governor Athisan Intra ordered all relevant agencies to quickly investigate and go through a surveillance camera footage again in trying to find Mr. Lawrence Stallard Honour, 19, after his mother Ms. Kunnara Fatakova, a Russian national, filed a missing person report at Pattaya City police station.
She had told police that by going through her son’s emails she found out that he was making moves in Kanchanburi.
Sangkhlaburi District Chief Suriyasak Muean-Uam had told the governor that a surveillance camera clip from a resort in Ban Dan Chedi Sam Ong, Nong Lu subdistrict, showed that the British youth was there at 3.32 p.m. on Sep. 27. He then asked to charge his mobile phone before leaving on foot.
An immigration officer at Three Pagodas Pass revealed that on that same day Honour attempted to cross over to Myanmar’s Payathonzu border town and his team tried to stop him by explaining that he had not yet been granted permission to do so. It was noticed that he was constantly talking on his cell phone.
Some officers later again stopped him as he tried to crawl through the fence and took him to a bus to return further inland but he slipped away while they were distracted and it is suspected that he has now succeeded in going to the Myanmar border town where he seems to have friends or acquaintances to go by his constant chatter over the phone.
Honour’s mother said her son was quiet, but intelligent, and has good computer skills. She is very concerned that he has been tricked into crossing to Myanmar to work for a call centre gang.
Another lead in searching for Honour is the discovery that he had hitchhiked to Sangkhlaburi with a teacher who gave him a ride being tracked down to get the details.
Anyone who knows about his whereabouts is urged to either call the 191 hotline, his mother at 087-063-2177, or the Sangkhlaburi police station at 034595300.
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Images of Mr. Lawrence Stallard Honour. Photos – Naewna
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