Did you look at the pictures?
The Fifth Estate - CBC News.
July 15, 1998
A model in England uses a passport with name "Georges Lecuit".
(see a
release signed by "Georges Lecuit" for British photographer Hywel Williams .pdf)
August 17, 1998
The real Georges Lecuit, in Paris, reports his passport stolen.
February, 1999
A man using the same passport (Georges Lecuit) appears in video titled, "Crush".
November 28, 1999
A man walks into Toronto General Hospital
He gives the name 'Philip Staufen', birth date of June 7, 1975. He's released after several hours with a diagnosis: Post-concussive Global Amnesia.
Toronto Detective Stephen Bone is called in.
December 17, 1999
Staufen spends 2 months with sympathetic Ontario couple.
January, 2000
Medical experts offer Staufen free amnesia therapy. He refuses.
Spring-Fall 2000
Staufen lives in Toronto, then spends 3 weeks in Montreal
Staufen moves to Vancouver, meets lawyer Manuel Azevedo and his daughter, Nathalie Herve-Azevedo.
Manuel Azevedo takes Staufen's case and agrees to assist him in obtaining Canadian citizenship.
February 15, 2001
In an affidavit, Staufen claims he was unconscious for several days in hospital. He outlines his activities since he 'woke up' at the hospital in Toronto and pleads for Canadian citizenship which would enable him to work and to travel internationally to search for his identity.
(read the
affidavit .pdf)
May 28, 2001
B.C. court denies Staufen's petition for a birth certificate.
June 5, 2001
Minister Elinor Caplan offers a "Minister's Permit" to stay and work in Canada for 18 months. Staufen refuses.
June 15, 2001
Staufen signs a second affidavit. Then, Azevedo's office issues a
press release (.pdf) announcing Staufen's hunger strike.
June, 2001
Gay *advertiser censored* editor, Sean Spence, offers Manuel and Nathalie Herve-Azevedo evidence that Staufen was a *advertiser censored* model in Britain. Nathalie rejects it.
July 3, 2001
Sean Spence sends pictures of the gay *advertiser censored* model known as Georges Lecuit to Detective Bone.
July 13, 2001
Staufen and Nathalie marry in Vancouver. That same month, Staufen accepts the Minister's Permit, backdated to July 5.
July 17, 2001
After wedding, and Spence's information, Manuel Azevedo quits the case.
August 29, 2001
Staufen loses his appeal for a birth certificate.
September 4, 2001
Immigration officials note that Philip has surgically altered his nose.
October 25, 2001
Staufen changes his name to "Keith Ryan".
Early 2002
Changes name again to "Sywald Skeid".
October, 2002
New immigration minister says Staufen's permit will not be renewed.
January, 2003
Skeid's permit expires. Herve and Skeid move to Ottawa, then Montreal.
September, 2003
Herve and Skeid move to Halifax.
Mid-February, 2004
Detective Stephen Bone receives information that the real Georges Lecuit reported his passport stolen in a Break and Enter on August 17, 1998.
April 28, 2004
Skeid is called to Immigration office in Halifax, arrested and jailed.
April 30, 2004
Immigration adjudicator extends Skeid's time in jail for one week.
May 7, 2004
Skeid is released with conditions. (read the
Order For Release .pdf)
October 4, 2004
In Halifax, Skeid almost misses deadline to report to Immigration. Then turns up at Immigration in Victoria, BC.
He was also jailed for a year because without any verifable identity he was deemed an "illegal alien" which he was.
British photographer, Hywell Williams, recalls a man with a plan to make it in North America.
"There was a purpose...his plan of action was to leave the country and go to the States to make some *advertiser censored* films. And he was exceptional in that, I felt, he had a plan of action."
THE EVIDENCE
-Both men are the same age -Have the same striking look -Both have dyed blond hair -Both had labels torn from their clothing -Both are unusually gifted -Both suffering from amnesia
