In 2004, she decided to go to Australia to stay with her daughter and father. She however said that she would continue to look after the people she and her husband had been looking after so far.
External links
Interview by rediff.com in 2000 (http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jan/24inter.htm)
"No comments, says Gladys Staines" (http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/15staines1.htm) - rediff.com article dated September 15, 2003
"Gladys Staines may leave India forever" (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=778487) - Times of India article dated July 14, 2004
"Gladys Staines bids adieu to India" (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/778847.cms) - Times of India article dated July 15, 2004
"Gladys Staines leaves India promising to return" (http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/15oris.htm) - rediff.com article dated July 15, 2004
Staines' husband Graham and their two sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8, were burnt to death by a communal lynch mob in Manoharpur village in eastern Orissa.
Staines, who left for Kolkata from Baripada on Wednesday, was due to catch a flight to Australia along with her 18-year-old daughter, Esther, late this evening.
Staines had visited Australia a few times after Graham Staines and their two sons, Timothy, 8, and Philip, 10, were burnt to death by a mob at Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district on the night of January 23, 1999.
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