Ex-husband says ‘if you slept with my wife, get the test done’

A Toronto man who was infected with the HIV virus by his stripper ex-wife is now pleading for other men who may have had sex with her to get tested for the disease. Percy Whiteman claimed yesterday that that he knows there are other men who slept with his ex-wife, Suwalee Iamkhong, who is currently fighting deportation from Canada. He said that he is lucky that he was able to find out early.

39-year old Iamkhong arrived in Canada from Thailand in 1995 and danced at Toronto’s Zanzibar Tavern for most of her career which lasted till 2004.

Though Whiteman alleges that his former wife had sex with other men as well, no evidence has yet been publicly presented.

In August 2007, she was sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for infecting Whiteman with HIV virus. Whiteman, who married Iamkhong in 1997, told court that he was unaware of the fact that she had AIDS until she fell ill in 2004.

Following all this, the Canadian government wants to deport Iamkhong, who is in detention in an immigration holding facility. A final deportation date is yet to be set.

Whiteman was the one who sponsored Iamkhong and according to Canadian immigration laws, he is financially responsible for her until 2011.

He said that he doesn’t think that justice was fully served and that she should have been deported a long time ago for what she did to others.

Whiteman has since founded Positive Survivors Living with HIV AIDS in order to help men who are caught in similar situations.

He said that she lied and put someone’s life at stake, adding that he has got a life sentence and knows that there are others out there.

Iamkhong said during an immigration hearing that she did not believe that she had HIV despite a positive test.

She claimed to be involved with the Thai Aids community and contended that if she is deported then she will not be able to afford medication.

Deportation action against Iamkhong began last year when it was discovered that she was not a Canadian citizen and that she has a past criminal record. A last-ditch appeal to the Federal Court in order to overturn the deportation was tossed out this month because of the conviction.

Justice Russel Zinn said that people living in Canada who are not citizens may be removed from the country if they have been convicted of serious criminality.