However after Robert Holmes received $5000 Aus from Ian Yarwood, an Australian Solicitor post-verdict, in order to have a complaint letter written by the boys defence team to BLQS(Bureau of Laboratory Quality Standards), he disappeared along with the money. Efforts have since been made to try to locate Robert Holmes in both Thailand and Phnom Penh Cambodia but so far he has not been found. What has been found is that far from being a distinguished Barrister, Robert Holmes is in fact a disgraced barrister who served a prison sentence in the 90’s for fraud. Questions are now being asked as to why Robert Holmes, now known to be a notorious Australian con man, was ever allowed to be involved with a case where the lives of the Burmese men were at stake. It is also unclear as to whether Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were aware their legal team was being advised by a man with a criminal past.