LONDON: England rugby league captain Jamie Peacock said Friday his pregnant wife and four-year-old son were “effectively being held hostage” in Bangkok by protesters besieging the main airports.
The 30-year-old Leeds prop said the demonstrators had “made their point” and needed to let innocent tourists escape the chaos.
Peacock’s wife Faye, 33, who is six months pregnant, their son Lewis, four, and Faye’s mother Pat, 60, were due to fly back to Britain from Bangkok on Monday.
“More of an effort needs to be made to get all the people who are stuck there out of there, because the country is on the brink of a lot of trouble,” he said.
“I think it has hit home that it is going to be a real struggle to get out of there, which it shouldn’t be.
“They are trying to use an army air base to get people out, but not enough flights are going through there, it is not being used to its capacity.”
Of the protesters, he said: “Some of them are naive, I think, if they think this is a harmless and peaceful protest.
“People like my wife and son are effectively being held hostage in Bangkok. They’re stuck there and they can’t leave of their own free will.
“They’ve made their point, and they need to move on now.”
The Peacock family had been in Australia, watching England play in the World Cup.
“It’s rather frustrating to be honest and I’m worrying as well. She’s 31 weeks now, she’s just on the limit of being able to fly back,” Peacock said, according to a British news channel.
“She needs to have an… injection and that was due on Thursday and so it’s vitally important they try and get her home now.”
Thai police on Friday ordered protesters immediately to leave one of Bangkok’s besieged second airport Don Mueang as anti-government leaders rejected last-ditch attempts to negotiate an end to the crisis.
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