Belgian national moved to AU in the late 1960s. Lived in a number of states in AU.
He obtained a Queensland driver's license under the name Fernand Nicklaus Remakel well before the disappearance of Marion.
In the mid 1960s he met Marion Warren in a hotel in Switzerland. He says her husband was a football player and that they had a brief relationship at that time. He went by the name Willie Wooters (sp?). Her travel documents show that she travelled overseas 1968-1969.
He says they had a second relationship around 1995-1996. He answered a personal advert in a newspaper of a woman looking for a partner. He went by the name of Rick. He answered the ad and claims that this was Marion's ad. They talked on the phone, went out for a drink, and then he stayed at her house in Southport for about 3-4 nights.
He visited the Southport school with Marion to pick up some books after her resignation. After she moved out of her home, she called him and asked if she could store her boxes at his home. These boxes were delivered by a moving company to his house in Wollongbar near Lismore, NSW.
About a week after these boxes were delivered, Marion showed up at his house to collect them with a man in his 50s. He was tall, wearing a white hat and blue uniform with gold markings like bars on the sleeve. Like a navy officer or pilot. He claims Marion told him they were travelling to the EU together to ride on the Orient Express. She told him that they planned to live together in the UK and that she planned to open a private school in England. This was his last known contact (if we are to believe this story).
He travelled to Japan on June 17 1997. His outgoing passenger card stated that he intended to stay for 30 days in Belgium. His incoming passenger card states he returned to Australia on July 31 1997. He travelled under the name Richard Lloyd Westbury after a deed poll name change.
He denies having any contact with her after she returned to Australia on August 2nd. He denies knowing that she disappeared until police contacted him in 2021. He denies knowing she changed her name. He denies taking her money.
He was a photographer and a coin dealer. He travelled overseas in the 80s and 90s, particularly to Belgium.
Fake Names:
Fernand Nicklaus Remakel
Willie Woosters (sp?)
Frederick De Hedervary (sp?)
Richard Lloyd Westbury
