Ex-Royal Marine’s wife is safe in Kabul after ‘crushed in airport stampede’ – but her husband blasts UK for failing to check she is alive after missing her flight
- Paul Farthing, 52, blew up minister in Kabul after he lost contact with his wife
- He said Boris Johnson would be ‘personally responsible’ if anything happened
- The former Marine finally got a message saying he was in a safe place
- Mr Farthing, who served in Helmand province in 2006, is placed about five miles from the airport along with 23 employees of his Naujad charity for stray animals.
A former Royal Marine has blown away ministers after his wife and the pregnant manager of her dog rescue center were trapped outside Kabul airport.
Paul ‘Penn’ Farthing, 52, said boris johnson Will be ‘personally responsible’ if someone harms his Norwegian partner Cassa after being reduced to wandering in the streets Afghanistan.
Mr Farthing, who served in Helmand province in 2006, is placed with 23 employees of his Naujad charity for stray animals about five miles away. He will not leave until the government provides all of them with a safe passage out of the country Talibanrapid acquisition.
Former Royal Marine commando Pen Farthing works with his Norwegian wife Kaisa Helen (above) and their team for an animal chair in Kabul. He said tomorrow Boris Johnson would be ‘personally responsible’ if anyone harmed his Norwegian teammate
Mr Farthing said in a Facebook video yesterday: ‘The Taliban have actually moved in next door, but they haven’t come to see us yet’
Mrs Farthing was asked to go out with the dog center manager, who is 34 weeks pregnant and has a one-year-old baby girl.
Despite meeting with British and American troops at the northern gate of Kabul airport, he refused to come out of his camp to be brought inside the military cordon, Mr Farthing said. ‘There is no security outside Kabul airport. They were caught and crushed in the stampede.
‘As a Royal Marine commando, I am absolutely angry with these soldiers because they refused to leave that camp to rescue those inside the security of Kabul airfield.
‘If there is a British army and they are not going out to save some people that they have been sent to get out of Kabul safely, then what is the point of them being here?
‘Boris Johnson and all senior employees of this government need to know what they are making this whole group of withdrawals in Afghanistan. People are going to die. Somebody needs to catch up. this is not acceptable.’
In a desperate tweet yesterday at 3pm, he wrote about the plight of his wife and their manager, saying: ‘Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab – whatever happens, I will hold you personally responsible.’
They finally got a message saying they were at two different safe places – but miles apart – around 4 p.m.
Pictured: Paul and Cassa Farthing at their Afghan ‘wedding’ ceremony, thrown by their friends in Kabul. He finally received a message saying that his wife and charity manager were at two different safe places – but miles away – around 4 p.m.
Former Royal Marines commando runs an animal rights charity in Afghanistan and is now trying to rescue dogs and cats
Naujad’s David Hill, who wants to remove 200 animals at an estimated cost of £200,000, told the Mail: ‘They are safe, but they were left wandering the streets of Kabul. They’re living in places they know are safe, that’s all we know. They were lucky to get out of the stampede.
Mr Farthing founded his charity in 2006, supported by Ricky Gervais and Dame Judi Dench, after falling in love with a stray dog in Afghanistan while on tour. It is the first official animal sanctuary in the country and cares for more than 140 dogs. 60 cats, 24 donkeys and some horses.
He has had to put some of his old and injured dogs down so that he is ready to be removed immediately once all of his staff are out, but he has promised friends that he will ‘shut the door’ and if they don’t. If given, it will remain the safe path till the end. Taliban fighters went beside him on Monday.
Mr Farthing hit out at the return of the West, saying: ‘I am fed up with politicians who are trying to convince the world that they’ve got control over it. they do not. It’s a masterclass, an absolute masterclass, on how to do everything wrong in a return from a country we’ve totally messed with.
‘We can’t go to Kabul airport. The Taliban now controls everything outside that perimeter. There are thousands and thousands of desperate Afghans who are trying to enter the airport.
Mr Farthing said he was ‘beyond furious’, and called on Mr Johnson to ‘control the situation’, adding: ‘This government and Joe Biden have created an absolutely unimaginable horror show of withdrawal from Afghanistan’ .
‘By making this comeback, Americans – especially Joe Biden – have created undue panic and tension and nothing is going to be achieved.’
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