A DAD is pleading with his heiress ex-wife to return their two young sons after she went into hiding on losing a custody battle.
Nishika Samaratunga abducted Blaine, five, and three-year-old Nathaniel over five months ago – with desperate Ben Baier now launching High Court proceedings.
American financier Ben, 43, had flown to Heathrow Airport to collect his two boys in March after they spent a week with their mum in London – but instead was served with a court summons by a lawyer containing “false allegations” of abuse.
Following the couple’s divorce, he’d won full custody last October and the children were being raised by him near Denver in the US.
Samaratunga, 34, a British citizen and scion of a Sri Lankan tea dynasty, has been the subject of an international manhunt ever since.
Ben is not sure what country his ex and their children are even in.
The dad says he is speaking now because he is concerned for the children’s safety – and has no idea if they are attending school or nursery or have proper access to medical care.
In court documents published in the US last month, the judge accused Samaratunga of endangering the children’s physical and emotional wellbeing by kidnapping them, reports The Times.
The judge said the mum had made “false allegations of every sort of abuse… imaginable” against Ben that were “simply invented for nefarious and bad-faith purposes”.
Ben told the newspaper: “I allow myself days just to break down, cry and clean out the gutters.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/16994793/dad-pleads-heiress-ex-wife-return-sons