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Today, 21 November 2009

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A 34-year old English woman has left her husband and two sons and run away to Australia, to be with the man she met in an Internet chatroom. Janet Woodhouse only began using the Internet in February and hasn't looked back since, staying up all night to chat to her cyber pals.

Woodhouses husband, truck driver Chris Woodhouse, told British tabloid The Sun that he purchased the computer last June to help his children with their homework. The Woodhouses have two sons, aged 10 and 12.

Janet, who was a part-time cleaner, would stay up all night in chatrooms, and a few weeks ago she met Australian Glenn Read in one of them. They exchanged telephone numbers and continued their burgeoning romance over the phone. Janet told her husband about the online affair, but he refused to believe her story.

Two weeks ago she told her husband she was going to the local sunbed centre for a tanning session, and that was the last he or his sons saw her.

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She purchased a one-way ticket to Australia and caught the next flight.

It took her husband two days to report her missing to the police, whereafter they tracked her to Down Under. A week after arriving in Australia she sent her husband an email, in which she said that she was living at a secret address.

"I'm safe and well," her email read. "Sorry I had to leave this way but I know you'd never let me go. I am very happy and very much in love with Glenn. I love my kids. I have raised them alone for 13 years so please don't say I don't care."

Chris Woodhouse said he was devastated. "It's as if Janet has washed her hands of her family. The worst thing is that I have no answers for the boys. She's been in touch by email and has phoned the kids a couple of times."

Janet Woodhouse has indicated that she would like her children to move to Australia.

"I have not abandoned them," she said. I would never give up on them. I would like them to come and live here as a family with me and Glenn."

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