A BRIT mum who was locked up and “left to rot” in a hellhole Thai jail has reportedly returned to the UK – with out her four-year-old son.
Ellis Matthews, 32, a wannabe influencer who spent her days in Asia sharing recommendations on the way to fraudulently declare authorities advantages, was deported from Thailand after overstaying her visa.
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Matthews spent 4 months behind bars together with her four-year-old son Cairo after going viral on TikTok for her controversial “mum on the run” bikini-clad movies.
In her posts, Matthews bragged about her “dream life” being funded by £2300 per 30 days in swindled British advantages.
Claiming to have six psychological issues and a disability, she posted movies advising her viewers on how they too might cheat the UK system for a life within the solar.
Matthews was arrested at her Pattaya residence in March, after overstaying her visa, which had been cancelled on February 21.
After being unable to afford the journey residence, she was locked up for months in a dingy Thai prison alongside her son.
She then refused to return to the UK, satisfied social companies would take away Cairo from her care.
Matthews is now again within the nation whereas her younger son stays in Thailand with a relative.
She informed the Every day Mail: “Leaving Cairo behind was one of many hardest issues I’ve ever needed to do”.
“I had no selection as a result of I am the sufferer of a web-based hate marketing campaign that’s making me out to be a foul mom,” she mentioned.
“I might by no means enable him to be handed round struggling in UK care – he has the proper to a secure childhood.”
The TikToker spent months locked up inside infamous Moms and Kids Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok.
Held captive in a shabby cell for greater than 20 hours a day, 16 different inmates and their youngsters lived alongside Matthews and Cairo, surviving on a food plan of lumpy rice and rat meat.
All inmates slept on the soiled concrete flooring.
“The situations had been horrific,” she informed the Every day Mail.
“There have been a whole bunch of girls and kids crammed into filthy rooms, compelled to sleep on naked flooring with out mattresses.
“Bogs overflowed, illness unfold unchecked and kids had been locked indoors for twenty-four hours with only a 35 minutes outdoors per week,” she added.
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Matthews mentioned her son “noticed issues no toddler ought to ever see”, detailing fights, violent breakdowns and abuse.
“Round 30 per cent of detainees had been mentally disabled,” she claimed.
“They had been usually overwhelmed and left handcuffed to the bars for days at a time.”
The mum-fluencer mentioned Cairo refused to eat the jail meals, absolutely regressing to full time breastfeeding.
“At one level, I even breastfed one other ravenous baby as a result of there was no different solution to preserve them alive,” she recounted.
Matthews described scenes of malnourished youngsters, “untreated and left in despair”.
“Cairo misplaced weight, regressed developmentally and have become traumatised,” she mentioned.
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She claimed he has since been recognized with a number of sicknesses requiring medical remedy.
Since returning to the UK, Matthews mentioned she has remained in hiding as a result of on-line hate.
“I am too scared to exit of the home as a result of these individuals are in search of me and threatening to show my whereabouts,” she mentioned.
“They’re continually making false allegations that I abused my son and need to destroy my life.”
Initially from Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, Matthews mentioned she had been left “disturbed” by individuals.
“Each my son and I are struggling,” she mentioned.
“I simply need to deliver him again to the UK and have a standard life with him.
“However proper now, his secure return shouldn’t be potential.”
She now claims her TikTok movies about scamming advantages had been “a joke” to “get extra followers and make some money“.
“The reality is I by no means bought any UK advantages whereas in Thailand, not a single penny,” she mentioned.
“It was all an enormous hoax, that is all.
“I can perceive why individuals had been indignant and upset about them.”
She admitted her movies previous to being locked up had been “rage bait”.
Since being launched from jail and deported, Matthews has shared an in depth account of her time in detention, together with having to “battle individuals to guard her son”.
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In a single video she says: “Think about being locked in a dirty international jail along with your three-year-old child”.
“There was no mattress, no toys, only a concrete flooring that my three-year-old cried to sleep on each evening,” she mentioned.
Matthews mentioned they had been residing amongst rats and cockroaches, and claimed “some youngsters had been malnourished and the disabled youngsters had been deserted”.
“In the event you wouldn’t have cash if you get there you’ll have a troublesome time,” she added.
“You even have to pay for locations to sleep on the ground, and it may be as a lot as £300 only for a spot to lie down.
“They promote the ground house by the tile,” she defined.
She described scenes of 80 to 100 individuals crammed into one “filthy little cell” with 30 – 35 of these individuals being “mentally unwell”.
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The feedback on her movies stay combined, with one particular person saying: “You actually pay 500 baht (£11.53) per day you overstay the advantageous, you did not pay the advantageous and let your son undergo that. Wild”.
Others have been extra supportive with one particular person saying: “Was so unfair what occurred to you each all coz of spiteful merciless individuals”.
Thai authorities revealed that they had taken motion in opposition to her after a neighborhood anti-child abuse organisation raised issues about Cairo’s welfare.
Matthews denied this, saying her visa was cancelled as a result of “some individuals within the UK have been trolling me and accused me of horrible issues like human trafficking and baby abuse”.
Regardless of her jail ordeal, Matthews nonetheless mentioned she was decided to not return to the UK with Cairo.
“I am not going to lose Cairo and there is not any means I am going again to the UK,” she mentioned.
She informed the Every day Mail that she deliberate to “go to a different nation”, suggesting Cambodia or Turkey as potential locations.
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