A Background Briefing investigation has revealed the bizarre chain of events that led to Sherrie tracking her fugitive abuser to the other side of the world.
Ten years since he left Cape Town, he is claiming to have broken a world record by crossing 90 countries in 10 years on his motorbike.The pair have attracted press coverage throughout their global road trip, and their arrival is such a big deal that the lord mayor of Sydney turns out to welcome them.
Batham's global motorcycle trip attracted much media coverage, including this article in a Dutch newspaper in 1981. They've got a tip-off that a tall, chatty pilot named Charles had turned up in Sussex, and the English police have promised to pay him a visit.He was headed for an airfield in Kent, he told them, to look for work as a pilot.
And so Charles Batham drove away to the port of Dover. He crossed the English Channel, and slipped away to continental Europe for another nine years."It was very disappointing," Detective Sergeant Bruce Bowers says.
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