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from www.torontosun.com – A former Toronto stripper and prostitute who was deported to Thailand for giving her ex-husband the HIV virus has been denied an opportunity to try to return to Canada.
Lawyers for Suwalee Iamkhong, 41, lost a motion last week before the Federal Court of Canada that could have led to her case being reopened.
Iamkhong, a former dancer at the Zanzibar, was deported to her native Thailand last August after serving more than two years of a three-year prison term for infecting former hubby, Percy Whiteman, of Toronto, with HIV.
“I am very pleased that she cannot come back to Canada and infect others,” Whiteman said on Tuesday. “She is a criminal and should have been deported a long time ago.”
Whiteman, 35, who takes medication for the virus, has founded a group to help men in similar situations. He has launched a $30-million suit against the immigration department, the Zanzibar and a doctor who approved her for Canada.
Whiteman married Iamkhong in 1997 and told court that he didn’t know she was infected with the virus until he fell ill in 2004.
Mr. Justice Simon Noël said Iamkhong couldn’t fluently speak either of the official languages after living here for 15 years.
Noel said Iamkhong was unemployed, had no assets, required welfare and only “belatedly” enrolled in an English class in December 2009.
“The possibility of rehabilitation in this case was not sufficient to overcome the bar to admissibility in Canada,” he said in his March 24 decision.
Court heard from a medical officer in Hong Kong who said AIDS-related medication was freely available in Thailand.
Toronto lawyer Aadil Mangolji said Iamkhong was devastated by the decision.
“She is not happy with the news,” Mangolji said on Tuesday. “She is having problems getting certain medications and then there is the stigma attached.”
Mangolji said all legal avenues for Iamkhong to return to Canada have been exhausted.
She arrived in Canada in 1995 and danced at the Zanzibar for most of her career, which lasted until 2004. Court heard that she was a prostitute in Thailand before moving to Canada.
