Emma L'Aiguille's father Wayne Walton
comforts his
daughter's 10-year-old son, who has pleaded for her safe return.
Picture: Stewart Allen
THE 10-year-old son of Melbourne woman
Emma Louise L'Aiguille, who is facing the death penalty for alleged drug
trafficking in Malaysia, has begged for his mother to be returned home.
"I want my mum to come back to
Australia. I don't want her to die," the boy said.
"I've been a bit sad. I don't
really feel that good. I miss her a lot."
The heartbreaking plea from the boy
comes as Ms L'Aiguille's devastated father spoke out, urging authorities:
"Please don't hang my girl".
Wayne Walton, from Perth, spoke of his
emotional torture yesterday and his fears that his daughter would suffer the
same fate as Australian heroin mules Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, who were
hanged in Malaysia in 1983.
If she's done it, just lock her up ...
no one deserves to be murdered - and that's what the death penalty is, it's
murder
He begged Malaysian authorities for
clemency saying: "Please let her go, don't kill her. She doesn't deserve
to die.
Mum pleads: "Please don't hang my
daughter"
Ms L'Aiguille, 34, faces the death
penalty after she was arrested on July 17 with more than 1kg of methamphetamine
allegedly stashed in a parked car.
She has denied any knowledge of the
drugs and claims she was abandoned by her Nigerian boyfriend.
Emma in happier times with her
ex-husband Clarel L'Aiguille,
who was not involved in the incident in Malaysia.
It is alleged he fled the scene
minutes before police searched their parked car and found 1.005kg of
methamphetamine (ice) behind the driver's seat, in which she was sitting.
Another Nigerian man, Anthony Esikalam
Ndidi, who was also a passenger in the vehicle, has also been charged.
Mr Walton said Ms L'Aiguille, who had
lived in Malaysia on a tourist visa for two years, had six children aged
between nine and 17 who loved her and desperately wanted to see her again. None
was in her care.
"It's tearing me apart it really
is," he told the Sunday Herald Sun. "I haven't stopped crying
thinking about what might happen to my own flesh and blood."
Amanda Innes hopes to fly to Malaysia
to support her daughter
Emma L'Aiguille (inset) as she faces drug charges.
Picture:
Norm Oorloff
Mr Walton, who has cared for one of Ms
L'Aiguille's sons for the past four years, said it was unlikely he would be
able to travel to Malaysia because of financial and work commitments.
"All I've told (her son) is that
she's in jail in Malaysia and that she's been a naughty girl," he said.
"How do you explain to a 10-year-old? At the end of the day, it's still
his mum and she always will be."
Mr Walton begged other young
Australians intent on gambling their lives by trafficking drugs in foreign
countries to think twice.
"Before you go to Malaysia or any
country like that, please think about what you are going to do. Do not touch
drugs, for God's sake. Think about your families that are left behind and how
they suffer," he said.
"What goes through their minds? I
can't fathom it."
Emma L'Aiguille's 10-year-old son is
comforted by
her father Wayne Walton and sister Rebecca Walton.
Picture:
Stewart Allen
Mr Walton urged authorities to toughen
local drug laws so people did not believe they could get away with trafficking
abroad.
Ms L'Aiguille's sister, Rebecca,
described the death penalty as "barbaric".
She said although she and her sister
had fallen out after an argument, she did not deserve to die.
"I regret that because if she is
found guilty of it, I'm never going to be able to take back what I said, never
going to be able to give her a hug, never going to be able to give her another
kiss to say sorry," she said.
Perth-born Ms L'Aiguille moved to Melbourne
with her mother, Amanda Innes, as a toddler but had returned to Perth several
times where her children, father and six of her siblings live.
The Sunday Herald Sun has been told
she led a difficult life, living homeless in Melbourne as a teenager and had
dabbled in drugs.
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