Joe Popich

You know, if you don't, you're a bit selfish.

But it sounded like he wasn't going to and he obviously never did.

And that was unfortunately the last time I spoke to him.

Not at that time.

Previously he said, we may go to Brazil, there's some people there, Simon's got some people he knows there.

I think it was just a big decoy for people to send them on a wild goose chase.

I just hung on to them because I didn't really know what to do with them.

You know, I thought, well, maybe one day he'll come back.

And then time just dragged out and dragged out and dragged down.

We never heard anything.

It just got to the point where, you know, you haven't heard for a while.

And then you kind of...

Your concerns kicked in and we thought, well, shit, you know, do we go to the police and report it as missing persons?

I don't know how it ended up getting to the media.

I don't know how that happened, but I just know I was swamped from...

All sorts of media in the space of about 24 hours from people at the door to cars at the front to the phone not stopping and from the Who magazine to the Women's Day to the TV stations and radio stations and everything, I just found it very overwhelming.

It was like magpies flying onto a chip, you know, it was a frenzy.

To find out that Simon Cadwell was really Gary Felton and he was here on a false passport...

My initial reaction to that was, well, you know, if someone's got a false passport, either they've done something bad in the past they're running away from or they're about to do something and they're going to run away from it, why else would you have a false passport?

Possibly might have done.