“Irresponsible” father loses over £6600 meant for son’s surgery to gambling

His three-year-old son was due for surgery to replace a damaged liver on January 28.

The family had sold everything they could and even borrowed money to raise the £6600 fee for the life-saving operation.

But Wei Jinling disappeared with the money, January 22, the same day the surgery fee was supposed to be paid.

Five days later, his wife, Xu Juan, received a text message from him saying he was sorry he had lost the money while trying to double it.

His text reads: I’m sorry for our son. I’m ashamed of seeing you. Yesterday I took the money to gamble to double it in order to save our child.

But I lost it all and I borrowed several thousand as well. I can’t live in Chengdu anymore. Money loaners will come to find me soon. The only way is for me to leave here.

Please make sure you raise the child well. I will return once I find the money’.

However, he returned on February 25 with a different story.

Upon his arrival, he told reporters that ‘the money wasn’t lost during a gamble, it was used to pay off a previous loan’.

While he told another reporter that he had lost the money on the street but ‘it wouldn’t help to call police’.

Fortunately though, his wife and mother-in-law were able to raise money elsewhere so that the surgery continue..