New Zealander fugitive Phillip John Smith AKA Phillip Traynor, in Brazil arrested & deported; had been on 72-hour release from prison when he fled to South America using a recently obtained passport; had been serving a life sentence for the murder of a man whose son he had sexually abused : whitetourists
He then spent a year in Ireland lodging with a travelling family who took pity on him while he was hitchhiking in Athlone, County Westmeath. He told them he was an English gypsy visiting Ireland, and they allowed him to live rent-free in a spare caravan, while he contributed a portion of his unemployment benefit towards food. This family asked Smith to leave when they became uncomfortable about sexual remarks he had made to young female members of the family. He became well known locally and was a regular patron of the Shamrock Cafe on Stratford Road and of the Rainbow pub in Digbeth, where he was employed on a casual basis as an odd-jobber and served as an unofficial taxi driver for drinkers. Philip John Smith was born in 1965 at the City Maternity Hospital in Gloucester, where he grew up. He coached Little League, attended swim and diving meets, drove teams to out of town competition, bid on 4-H animals at fairs, spent holidays at 3-Day horse events and used his beloved Kabota tr...