Andrew Thompson aged four, was illegally abducted by his mother Melinda Thompson (also known as Melinda Stratton) from Australia in April this year. Melinda boarded a Singapore Airlines flight in Sydney with Andrew and flew to Frankfurt, Germany. This is a criminal offence under the Australian Family Law Act. They were ‘a no show’ on a booked return flight to Australia and have since disappeared. Melinda’s family have told police and others that they have no idea of their whereabouts and that Melinda had been researching ‘safe havens’ in the weeks prior to the abduction. The abduction took place shortly after an investigation by a leading Sydney child and family psychiatrist found the mother has an underlying mental state that affects her judgement and her ability to parent effectively. The Court has also ordered that in any publication a warning must be issued stating that no one is to approach Melinda Thompson and that any information should be provided immediately to local police and/or Interpol. The Court did this because of alarming concerns raised by the psychiatrist about the potential for harm to Andrew or for self-harm to the mother. The Australian Government has conducted an extensive international search for the last seven months. Interpol has issued alerts in 187 countries and the Hague Convention on International Child Abductions has been activated. Both Andrew and Melinda are Australian Citizens, travelling on Australian Passports. You can help us bring Andrew home by: 1. Forwarding this email to everyone in your address book. 2. You can print his poster and display it in a car window. Link: HTML : http://www.lrcf.net/public-flyers/ANDREW_JOHNTHOMPSON.html PDF : http://www.lrcf.net/public-flyers/ANDREW_JOHNTHOMPSON.pdf 3. Put up posters in your local shops windows. 4. Display posters on the community boards at the local supermarkets and schools. 5. Display a poster at your office. 6. Dispatch the poster to other offices associated with your company. 7. You could display the banner from the website of Forever Searching on your own website. CONTACTS Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Andrew and Melinda should contact their local police who will contact Interpol OR contact the Australian Federal Police on +61-2-6126-7777. For further information or to arrange an interview with Andrew’s father, contact: Robin Bowles +61-418-102-732. or mail to urgent@foreversearching who will put you in contact with Ken Thompson. PLEASE HELP US CIRCULATE ANDREW'S POSTER THROUGH OUT GERMANY.
Why are no pics posted of the mother? OK, so a mother takes her child, WOW, stop the presses, everyone drop what you're doing! A child is with his mother, how horrible! I'm sure there are children out there in far worse danger than this. I guess the father has lots of pull in Australia to make such a big deal over this. How do we know the mother isn't SAVING the kid from father? There is no mention of what her "mental" problem is, why is that? And why tell us old hippies?
