Australia-Bound Biker Refused Permission To Fly Home

A British man  was dumped off a Perth bound plane at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

He said that airline staff told him that he has no permission to go to Australia.

Kevin Lawrence, 56, has lived in Australia on a Permanent Residence visa for 50 years after going there with his British parents.

He has an Australian partner and three children aged 12, 10 and 7 waiting for him in Perth. He has worked for the same fertilizer company for 35 years.

Mr Lawrence said that he suspects that he has been denied to return to Australia because of his connections to the Perth based Rebels motorcycle gang.

He said that he is a man of good character but is being portrayed as the opposite.

He admitted to having two counts of assault against his name. But that was 25 years ago and he has not been in trouble since.

 He passed through immigration and customs before airline staff offloaded him saying that his Australian residence had been cancelled. No Thai immigration were involved in this process, he said.

But left without a visa in Thailand he paid a lawyer $2,000 AUS to arrange a Thai retirement visa for him after being denied leaving on Wednesday.

He said this gave him permission to be in Thailand for a year but he wants to get home.

Now another lawyer in Australia has asked for $6,000 AUS up front to look into his case as his desperate wife and children await news.

Mr Lawrence said that he came to Pattaya for a bike week on 8th February and was leaving on the 14th to return to his family and job.

It all came as a complete surprise. He has taken steps to resign from the Rebels gang and said he wants to remove his tattoos.(Comment:-Good luck with that one !)

 “I think it is connected to my membership of the Rebels,” he said. “I have been a member for ten years but I am not involved in drugs or anything illegal .”

Now running out of money he has returned to Pattaya as he awaits news of his uncertain future.

He said he has a mortgage and children in private schools in Australia.

Biker gangs – especially the Hell’s Angels – have come under scrutiny in Thailand especially in recent months.

(Source:-ThaiVisa News)