'STAN THE MONKEY' MOCKED THAILAND ON FOUR DIFFERENT PASSPORTS
Following a route used by criminals Alan Smith, who was first exposed on this site and in the SUN newspaper in the UK after we photographed him coming out of the school, returned again using the name Alan Anumm, then again as Alan Burton-Howson, and then again as Alan Stewart, to gain teaching work in Thai school.
Tracked down by the SUN in the UK Smith, now 62, who gained a little fame as ‘Stan the Monkey’– the mascot of Accrington Stanley Football Club, and as a prize winner in the British tv quiz show 'The Weakest Link' said:
“I know changing my name looked a bit dodgy but I didn’t want to get arrested again - I just wanted to go back to put something into the country I love.
“I was put on sex offenders’ register but that’s in the past now and I was never banned from working with children.”
The ex-Butlins redcoat was jailed for six months in August, 2005 and placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years for a sex attack on a 14-year-old girl.
Burnley Crown Court heard evidence of a vile “penetrative” assault in which a pool cue was used.
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| Smith photographed outside Bangkok temple school (Andrew Chant) |
He was deported from Thailand as ‘persona non grata’ after we exposed that he had lied about his educational qualifications to get the job at the Nongyai temple school in north Bangkok.
He claimed to have had a degree from Manchester University, and to have worked for the United Nations.
But he returned to Thailand under the name Alan Anumm. He was arrested on his return to the UK in February 2009 and charged with being in breach of the Sex Offenders Act by failing to notify the authorities that he was travelling abroad and changing his name without notifying the authorities.
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| Deported as Alan Stewart for 'overstay' |
His third name was Howson-Burton taken, he said, from his mother’s side of his family. His fourth assumed identity “Alan Trevor Stewart” - was chosen because it was his stage name when he was a Redcoat.
The differently numbered passports enabled him to re-enter Thailand, where he taught at Phi Pun School and Nakhon Si Thammarat Provincial Vocational College, near Tung Song in the south of the province, last year.
Smith - employed through a Thai agency called E&W Learning - was arrested for outstaying his visa in December last year and held in a detention centre before finally being kicked out in April.
Under the auspices of the National Crime Agency Thai schools can check if British citizens have convictions for sexual offences when they apply for work. But it seems no such checks were made.
His repeated returns to Thailand were brought to our attention by a fellow teacher who claimed that Smith admitted whom he was and kept talking about the girls at his school. But he made up many stories, said the teacher, and was always borrowing money.
When Smith was first deported he told the local Lancashire Telegraph that he could not take his Thai wife, a former go-go dancer, with him because:
"My wife won't come with me because she knows how I have been treated in England and hates the country. As far as she is concerned it is a vile and disgusting place.”
He later claimed that she was standing by him and they were expecting a baby together.
But on dating sites in Thailand he claimed he was the victim of a Thai wife who had cheated him out of everything.
A spokesman for FACE – the Foundation Against Child Exploitation, which was instrumental in Smith’s first deportation said:
“This man is a convicted paedophile who has been deceiving authorities to return to Thailand to get teaching jobs time and time again.
“It is a matter of great concern and we are continuing to make inquiries into the case.”