Parents of Murdered Expat Offer Money for Grandson's Return

Source: The Sun

The family of a British man murdered by his jealous estranged wife in China have offered her 40,000 to send their grandson back to the UK, to join his sister. 

Grandparents Ian and Linda Simpson have already paid thousands of pounds to the family of killer WeiWei Fu, who is caged for knifing their son, Michael, the head of Nexts retail operations in China.

Michael, 34, was murdered by WeiWei in his Shanghai apartment two years ago.

The Simpsons were made guardians of their granddaughter, Alice, six, in a court hearing on Boxing Day, after a two-year legal battle.

Now living in Suffolk, Alice is able to have weekly video chats with Jack, after the Simpsons agreed to pay the Wife's family more than 9,000 to enable the youngsters to maintain contact, reports the Mail on Sunday.

But, her brother Jack, eight, remains with his mum's parents in Nanzhang, in northern China.

WeiWei has now been promised more than 40,000 by her in-laws to agree to let Jack join his sibling.

Ian, 70, told the publication that he has written to her family offering the huge sum.

This money would be paid into an account for the murderer to financially support herself upon serving her life sentence - as long as her relatives agreed to allow Jack to live in the UK.

According to the source, Alice and Jack's family in China are refusing to comply with a court order stipulating that the kids can meet up every year for a holiday.

Ian was told that it would cost another 25,000 in costs to try and make them stick to the court agreement - but there's no guarantee they would comply.

BRUTAL MURDER

Weiwei Fu was jailed for life after she stabbed Michael to death in a jealous rage in 2017, as their kids slept in a nearby room.

They had separated two years earlier, and Michael was bringing up the youngsters by himself.

Alice and Jack were then sent to live in the remote region of Nanzhang with Wei Wei's parents.

The children were told their dad - an executive at Next who lived in China for nine years - had deserted them.

He in fact was stabbed in the neck by Weiwei - who also attacked his new partner, leaving her with lifelong injuries.

Almost 100,000 was spent on lawyers and travel to China, in a push to secure the siblings' future in Britain.
KIDS FORCED APART

But Jack was made to stay with his other grandparents after a deal for them both to come here together was withdrawn at the last minute.

This forced the Brits to make the difficult decision to care for just Alice in the UK.

But Ian and his family are committed to reuniting the siblings in the UK.

Ian told the Mail On Sunday in January: "We are overjoyed to bring Alice home but it breaks our hearts to leave Jack behind. Linda cried and asked me, 'How can we wrench them apart?'

"But in the end we had to choose between coming home with Alice or walking away without either of our grandchildren. We could have lost them both forever.

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