Vernon Unsworth said he was preparing to start legal action against the Tesla billionaire imminently. The 63-year-old is considering using Thai courts because they could hand Mr Musk a jail sentence
A British diver who helped in the rescue of the trapped boys from a Thai cave is to sue Elon Musk for branding him a child rapist.
Vernon Unsworth said he was preparing to start legal action against the Tesla billionaire imminently.
The 63-year-old is considering using Thai courts because they could hand Mr Musk a jail sentence. He is also mulling defamation proceedings in London and the US where the tycoon is based.
The diver from St Albans in Hertfordshire described Mr Musk’s allegations that he had a child bride and had moved to an area notorious for child sex trafficking as ‘100 per cent’ untrue.
‘I’ve been told to be very careful because this guy may do anything to make my life difficult,’ he said.
Mr Musk had accused Mr Unsworth of being ‘a paedo’ during the rescue of 12 schoolboys from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex.
Earlier this week he renewed his baseless attack by telling a reporter to stop defending ‘child rapists’ and claimed Mr Unsworth had moved to Thailand for a ‘child bride who was about 12 years old at the time’.
Mr Unsworth’s girlfriend, Woranan Ratrawiphukkun, 40, yesterday said she was ‘no child bride’. She met him seven years ago, when she would have been at least 32.
She runs a nail salon and lives with Mr Unsworth in the countryside at Chiang Rai – near the scene of the cave rescue.
Mr Musk had accused Mr Unsworth of being ‘a paedo’ during the rescue of 12 schoolboys from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex
She told the Times: ‘The news about him being married to a 12-year-old child is laughable. As of now, everything will proceed according to the law. Vern is a kind person. He rarely has an argument with anyone, and everybody loves Vern. If he wasn’t a good man, we wouldn’t still be together.’
Mr Unsworth was the first foreign rescuer on the scene of the cave drama. He had an intimate knowledge of the tunnel system in which the 12 schoolboys and their coach were trapped.
But he incurred Mr Musk’s wrath when he said a mini-submarine proposed by the tycoon to help in the rescue had ‘absolutely no chance of working’, describing the offer as a publicity stunt.
Mr Musk provided no evidence for his initial jibe and later deleted the posts and apologised.
Earlier this week he renewed his baseless attack by telling a reporter to stop defending ‘child rapists’ and claimed Mr Unsworth had moved to Thailand for a ‘child bride who was about 12 years old at the time’ (pictured as part of the July rescue mission team)
However, he has continued the attack in astonishing emails to a BuzzFeed reporter.
In the emails, which Mr Musk, 47, claimed were off the record he said Mr Unsworth was ‘an old, single white guy from England who’s been travelling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time’.
He suggested Pattaya and Chiang Rai were hotspots of the child sex industry and added: ‘I ****ing hope he sues me.’
Mr Unsworth said he had never visited Pattaya or any other areas of Thailand with similar reputations for depravity. ‘What Mr Musk is saying is any foreigner living in Thailand is a paedo guy,’ he added. ‘I’ve never been to places like Phuket, I’ve never been to Pattaya, I’ve never been to any of the islands.’
Mr Unsworth, a financial broker, splits his time between the UK and Thailand. He is being represented by US-based defamation lawyer Lucian Wood.
‘Musk can tweet his vindictive and vicious lie a hundred times and it will still be a lie,’ said Mr Wood. ‘Paedophilia is too serious an issue to leave unchallenged.’
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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