Номер 7, страница 45 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Уайт

Track 10.

Tests confirmed yesterday that the so-called Christopher Edward Buckingham, who had lived a lie for twenty-three years, is really an American called Charles Albert Stopford the Third.

The man first came to the police's attention last year, when his passport was checked in France.

His passport details showed that he had stolen the identity of a Christopher Edward Buckingham, who had died aged eight months, in August nineteen sixty-three.

The French officials contacted the UK, and he was arrested as soon as he arrived in Britain.

The mystery man was taken to court for using a false passport, but he wouldn't tell police his real name.

He even refused to see his children, despite their requests to know the truth about their father's past.

The two children are from his thirteen-year marriage, which ended in divorce.

His ex-wife, Amanda, said that she was shocked to learn that the man she knew was Chris Buckingham was someone else.

She said that she and her children were having trouble understanding the situation.

The man's real name was finally revealed when a woman in the United States saw a picture in an online British newspaper.

She thought that it looked like her long-lost brother, so she contacted the authorities.

The FBI and UK Immigration Service ran some identity checks, and these proved that the man's real name was Charles Albert Stopford the Third.

Stopford had disappeared from the States when he was working as a sailor in the US Navy.

At the time he had been accused of a serious crime, so he ran away to avoid being arrested.

He had traveled in Japan and Germany before arriving in England, where he met and married Amanda, and had two children.

Following his court appearance, Stopford, forty-two, was sent to prison in the UK for using a false passport.

At the end of his sentence, he will be held as an illegal immigrant, and will probably be deported to the US.

His parents and eight brothers and sisters said that they were both shocked and excited that he had finally been found.

A British detective said, this whole inquiry has been upsetting, for the baby's family, for Charles Stopford's former wife and his children who have been left wondering who Buckingham really is, and indeed for his family in America.

Now his true identity has been confirmed, hopefully this will help them all come to terms with what has happened.

The police officer who led the inquiry until his retirement last year said, I'm pleased he has finally been identified, but there are still a lot of questions to be answered.

I'm going to write to him once more in the hope that he might provide some answers.