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URGENT: Action required before the 8th of August

I am appealing to all my friends at Bingoport to help my children raise the funds to have their father James Bolton, returned to us here in the uk so we can have a funeral and say our goodbyes.

We have set a group page up on facebook called "Bring our dad home" where people can donate to help us, there is a link on this page where you can donate via paypal which is safe.

Although we have recieved a fair amount on here we are nowhere near the £8000 we need for his repatriation (getting his body back).
This is why I am appealing to members of Bingo Port, the site that is known to all our members as one big happy family, so I plead to my family at Bingoport PLEASE HELP US.

Update: all the required money has been raised for this cause. The family thanks everyone for their help.

We do not have much longer to find the funds, if we cannot get enough money raised James will be given a paupers funeral over in the Philippines which we are told is not very nice.
Also we will have nowhere after to visit on birthday's etc to take flowers. It is unbearable to the children of the thought of leaving James out there.

On the Saturday 17th of July we were informed by a friend of James that James had been shot and murdered along with his partner at their home in the Philippines.
We immediately telephoned the British Embassy who confimed that yes Mr James Bolton had indeed been shot and murdered in the Philipines.

A few days later in the Philippines A fillopino local man Mark Dizon, age 28 a computer technician, was arrested and charged with the murder of James his partner and 7 other people. Branded as a serial killer. This has been all over the media.

My children were beside themselves to hear such devastating news.

James had been made redundant from his job in Northampton and decided to take his redundancy money and go on an extended holiday, he stayed in a friend's apartment then decided to rent his own in Angeles City Philippines,

On monday the 12th of July James got in touch with a computer technician to repair his computer. James emailed our daughter to tell her a technician was coming to his apartment either that night or early tuesday morning, he emailed her to say he would be able to come online on that tuesday via a webcam to be able to see our daughter and her new baby as he hadn't seen the baby as she had been in intensive care, both our daughter and James were looking forward to the webcam link.

We never heard anymore from James after the last e-mail on 12th july.

We were told James and his partner's were found dead in their apartment on friday 16th july after neighbours reported a smell coming from the apartment.

Some of James's belonging's had also been stolen.

After the capture and arrest of Mark Dizon 28 a pawnshop owner told the police that he had been given a laptops, camera's, mobiles and other items belonging to the victims, he also has the video footage of Mark Dizon selling them to him, he apologized that all memory on these things had been erased ready to sell on, James kept all our family photo's on his laptop and camera, so therefore we have lost all these memories as well.

James never took out travel insurance as this was far higher than the medical costs while he was there, he also never had life insurance.

We have explored every possible avenue we can to help with this, to no avail, including the Foriegn Office the British Embasy, charity organisation's and our MP even as a loan, we have been told no by them all.

The media found our group on facebook and splashed it all over the news about what we were doing.

My daughter's have made appeal's on sky news BBC look north and 2 radio station to tell people of our story and of the facebook group. They were not paid for telling of our plea.

James was a lovely father and grandfather, he just decided to go on an extended holiday as he had never travelled, he was coming home.
My children are beside themselves we have not been able to grieve properly for the loss of their father due to this problem of getting him back for a funeral.
This is why I now turn to my friends at Bingoport to plead with you please help my family.

Between James and I we have four lovely children and six grandchildren, they were all very close to James and not only are they finding it extremely hard to deal with the fact that their father has been taken away from them in this horrendous way, they are inconsolable at the fact they maybe will not be able to have a funeral and say goodbyes.

I'm hoping you will all find it in your heart's to help us "Bring our dad home"

Thank you - your Bingoport member and friend Harryjo.

James Bolton