I fell for cocaine honeytrap, claims British physicist in Argentine jail

He told an Argentinian newspaper, Clarín, that he had been convinced he had
been in contact with Miss Milani since November. “Perhaps I should have
realised earlier but the fraudster was very good and very intelligent,” he
said. “I never thought these sorts of people existed.

“For 11 weeks I thought I was chatting with an attractive woman.”

Dr Frampton added: “’Ms Milani’ told me she liked older men and was tired of
photo shoots. She was very convincing and I fell for the story.

“I was convinced I was chatting with a ‘she’, but after a couple of weeks in
prison, I realised it was a man, a criminal posing as a model.”

He flew to Bolivia, where he thought he was going to meet Miss Milani, and
spent 10 nights there, where a man gave him the suitcase in the hotel lobby.

From Bolivia he flew to Buenos Aires, where he spent three days waiting for a
ticket to Brussels, where he had been told he would finally meet Miss Milani.

“The day I arrived in Bolivia I found out she wasn’t coming and I should have
returned to the US straight away,” he said. “But I always see my projects
through, as I do with my physics papers. She was my project. Perhaps I
should have realised there was something strange going on.”

A friend eventually persuaded Dr Frampton, who lives in the United States but
is originally from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, to return home to North
Carolina. It it was as he tried to do so that he was arrested on Jan 23.

There is no suggestion that Miss Milani had any involvement in the plot, or
knew that a group was allegedly using her identity for honeytrap stings.

Dr Frampton is a professor at North Carolina University. Fellow scientists
have written to Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, asking her to
intervene in his trial.

His former wife, Anne Marie, said he had “an emotional age of three”. “The
only thing he understands is science.

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