Abu Dhabi An Australian physical fitness instructor has reacted sharply to his wife’s allegations that he is hiding their two children aged two and four from her.

Abu Dhabi-based Wolfgang Trezise also rubbished reports they are divorced and expressed disappointment that his family issues were reported in the media.

“It disappoints me greatly that the domestic affairs between my wife Elizabeth Glanville and myself have become a highlight in the media of the UAE and possibly now abroad. Those who know me, know me as a very private man who will do anything to protect my children and over the past three weeks that is exactly what I have been doing… protecting my children,”  Trezise said in an e-mail response to an XPRESS report published last week.

Posters

The May 29 report in XPRESS centred around posters put up by Glanville seeking help in finding her ‘missing’ daughters. She claimed the children were being kept away from her by Trezise in violation of a court order and also accused him of having extra-marital affairs. Trezise, however, accused Glanville of having multiple affairs while not being caring enough towards her daughters.

“On February 1, 2014 Elizabeth decided to abandon her children to move to America with a young man she met out clubbing on one of her many long nights out back in November 2013,” he alleged.

Trezise defended taking the children away with him: “I was intending to return the children as per our original agreement, but [changed my mind] after her actions and upon receiving a message from a mutual friend stating her intentions and reason for coming back was to destroy me and take everything that I hold dear and close, including the children. My fear for abduction and never seeing my girls again was paramount — given the way she’s failed to take care of them in the past,” he said.

“I want  people to know that everything I am doing is for a reason and that even though Elizabeth also has her reasons and her right as a mother, I do not want my children to suffer,” said Trezise.

Trezise also accused Glanville of physical assault: “She has also displayed physical violence towards me on more than one occasion and damage to property, including punching me numerous times with our 15-month-old-daughter in my arms, burying keys into my shoulder while driving a car with my two children in the back,” he added.

The couple have been married for seven years and their divorce is yet to be granted by a competent court.