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| October 4, 2009 | Alert Chennai Airport officers help in nabbing Australian offender | | Sydney: A Germany-born Australian convict, who slipped through Australian customs and immigration checkpoint with a fake Indian passport and a remarkable disguise, was nabbed by alert Chennai Airport officials while he was trying to enter India. Caucasian kidnapper Julian Matthias Buchwald, 23, had duped Sydney customs with
dyed black hair and a fake tan before taking his seat on the 12.30 PM Singapore
Airlines flight from Sydney to Chennai. However, Chennai Airport officials sensed
something amiss from with his appearance and refused hims entry into India. The
on-the-run Buchwald was then sent back to Singapore where his true identity was
revealed and he was detained, The Age reports. Buchwald, whose family had migrated
to Australia when he was in his teens, left the country on September 16, a day
before he was due to be sentenced in Victoria's County Court for the kidnapping
of his then 17-year-old girlfriend Carolynne Watson. Buchwald held Watson captive
in East Gippsland bush for eight days in March last year. Buchwald wanted to marry
Watson, a fellow member of the Morwell Apostolic Church, but she was unsure so
he decided to kidnap her. He was sentenced in absentia to a minimum of five years
and three months' jail. Victoria Police are trying to find out how Buchwald who
does not speak a word of Hindi managed to get out of the country on a doctored
passport. ''It was a very amateur alteration to the passport,'' investigating
officer, Detective Sergeant Matthew Gleeson, said. According to an immigration
department spokesman, the passport belonged to an Indian tourist who had reported
it missing. Buchwald was stopped at the airport and his passport checked but it
was in such bad condition that officers did not realise the photo was fake. ''We
are investigating how this incident happened. The facts are he was travelling
on a genuine passport and he matched the photograph on the document," he added. | |
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