When a British schoolteacher named John Dewhirst met Stuart Glass and Kerry Hamill during a trip to Malaysia, the three ended up spending several months in Kuala Terengganu before heading north to Bangkok. Somewhere along the way, and for reasons that are still unclear, the trio found themselves on a boat called Foxy Lady somewhere off the coast of Cambodia.
The trio was seized by members of the Khmer Rouge regime under the auspices of Pol Pot. During the takeover of the boat, Glass was shot and killed, while Dewhirst and Hamill found themselves facing a fate worse than death…
Growing Up
Dewhirst was born with a love and verve for life that was mostly unsurpassed. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1952, his father was the headmaster of a school and his mother was an antique dealer. At the age of 11, the Dewhirsts moved to Cumbria where John became a sports enthusiast and a lover of the great outdoors.
