Summary
Clive and Iullia ran off to the Caribbean supposedly so Iulia could free birth on a beach. They left an eight year old in the UK. Iulia had the baby but they didn't attend hospital. When they eventually came to get a birth certificate they couldnt as the authorities wouldn't issue a birth certificate because of the non hospital birth (to verify Iullia as the mother and eliminate the possibility that the baby had been trafficked in someway) within the required period.
They then went to a different country (crossing borders illegally) and tried to apply for a British passport for the baby and to get consular help over the birth certificate.
This further complicated matters as people weren't happy about the border hopping. Clive prattled something about not recognising the legitimacy of borders and how they shouldn't apply to him (there were tones of 'because I am a white British male). Then Clive had a tantrum that he was required to do a DNA test to prove he was the baby's father (the baby wouldn't necessarily qualify for British citizen through Iullia as I don't believe she has British citizenship). He went to the press claiming how awful it was it was taking so long, how unhelpful the embassy were at sorting out the mess of his own making, how he was separated from his elder daughter which was appalling and how much he missed her and how much it was all costing him to stay in the Carribbean. He talked about how he was living on a boat he'd 'borrowed from a friend'. Then he launched a gofundme. Which raised about 50p and a old soggy haribo.
MN were intrigued by the story so did some digging and worked out he'd got three separate identities, had been in some sort of running scandal for cheating and was clearly a weirdo freeman of the land. Then a 'friend' of Clive's (clearly Clive) came on MN saying how lovely Clive and Iullia was and how terribly they'd been treated in semi-literate prose. Which was rather amusing at the time. It all rumbled on for a bit longer then the story went dead.
MN posters still intrigued by the story have requested updates on what eventually happened and whether Clive and Iullia were happily reunited with their older daughter in the UK and how Clive eventually paid for everything. Someone picked up on how Clive and Iullia had stayed in the Carribbean and turned up in the Caymans illegally suspected of illegal entry and people smuggling. (It seems they never returned to their daughter). They were named in the initial newspaper reports. It didn't really surprise anyone. When the first story came round people suggested drug smuggling or trafficking as there was an unexplainable gap in income between what Clive was doing and his life back in the UK.
These last few reports have removed names but they say it's a unique case with no one having charged with people smuggling before in the Caymans and the details otherwise match. Including the point about not recognising the authority of the court.
It's actually a really sad story about a man who couldn't give a shit about the welfare of his wife and kids and has gone nuts with conspiracy theories and is a deeply unpleasant racist who makes money from abusing people and human trafficking.
It reads like a bad film script that no one would believe.
Clive is now doing 4 years in the Cayman Islands. Baby has been returned to the UK.