The parents of British businessman savagely murdered by his Chinese ex-wife are preparing for a bitter custody battle for their grandchildren in China.
Michael Simpson, 34, from Wimborne in Dorset, was stabbed to death by Fu Weiwei in a domestic row at his apartment in Shanghai while their children slept in the next room.
She was jailed for life in July this year and the couple's children have been with her family since.
Michael Simpson (pictured with his children), 34, from Wimborne in Dorset, was stabbed to death by Fu Weiwei in a domestic row at his apartment in Shanghai in March 2017
Mrs Simpson's parents and brother Andrew, 39, have been fighting to get custody of Jack, eight, and Alice, six, racking up £100,000 in legal costs. Pictured: Ian Simpson (right) with his son Andrew in Bournemouth
But Mrs Simpson's parents and brother Andrew, 39, have been fighting to get custody of Jack, eight, and Alice, six, racking up £100,000 in legal costs.
On Thursday a mediation and custody hearing will begin in a remote part of China where there has never been a case involving a foreigner before.
The Simpsons claim the children have still not been told their father is dead and that their mother has been jailed for life.
They accuse her family of only being interested in money after they offered to let the Simpsons take Alice, but not Jack, and demanded £63,000 for 'travel expenses'.
The British couple have only been allowed to see the children once for five hours since their son died in March 2017.
Mr Simpson, 69, said: 'We were trying not to upset Jack and Alice in the hope we could come to an agreement.
Fu Wei Wei (pictured) was jailed for life in July this year and the couple's children have been with her family since
'But the Fu family just demanded tons of money. They said they wanted £63,000, which is half a million renminbi, which was supposed to be for travel expenses to see the children if they lived with us.
'But that amount of money would cover first class travel and staying at hotels on a level with the Dorchester. It was a joke, they basically wanted money.
'Even the judge who was trying to broker the deal said they were just an unbelievable family and if we'd offered the £63,000 they would just ask for more.
'I visited Weiwei in jail in October and she has been lied to by the family... They told her we asked for just Alice and that we had asked them for money.
'After we saw the children in March, Linda was so disgusted by the way the family behaved she was desperate to get the children away from them.
'The problem we face is they've never had a custody case in the whole of the Hubei Province where a foreigner is trying to get custody.
'The hearing is taking place in Nanzhang, 1,000km away from Shanghai and there's nobody who can translate so we're having to pay for a translator from Shanghai.
'For most of the people in that area, we will be the first Europeans they have seen.
Mr Simpson (pictured with his children) was an operations manager for Next and was overseeing the retailer's expansion in the Far East
'So although we believe the case we are putting forward is absolutely right, we are worried that it's a Nanzhang court and Nanzhang judges.'
After the case, the Simpsons have been warned by their lawyers that they face at least a month's wait for a decision.
Mr Simpson was an operations manager for Next and was overseeing the retailer's expansion in the Far East. He had lived in China since 2009, met Weiwei, a store assistant, married and had two children.
They separated in 2015 and he had a new partner Rachel Lin, who was badly injured in Fu Weiwei's frenzied attack on March 20, 2017.
The Simpson family is being supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which will have two representatives attending the hearing.
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Michael Simpson, 34, from Wimborne in Dorset, was stabbed to death by Fu Weiwei in a domestic row at his apartment in Shanghai while their...
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