'I'm ditching UK with son, 2, for country 3,400 miles away – England is too scary'

EXCLUSIVE: Jodie Weston says the worrying levels of weapon transgression successful Britain is 1 of the reasons wherefore she wants to ditch the state to alternatively commencement a caller beingness with her young lad successful Dubai

An influencer is ditching the UK to alternatively rise her lad 3,400 miles distant – arsenic the state has go "too scary".

Jodie Weston, 30, achieved fame with stints connected Channel 5’s Rich Holiday Poor Holiday and Rich Kids Go Skint. The DJ has besides been unfastened successful the past astir splashing retired £30,000 connected holidays for her and her son.

But the mum wants to marque her adjacent escapade overseas imperishable truthful she tin rise Koa, present two, successful Dubai. Jodie is getting her enactment visa processed and is looking astatine apartments.

And 1 of the driving forces down the determination is her fears of raising a kid successful the UK.

Speaking astir her interest for weapon transgression successful particular, she told us: “Knife transgression is not an contented retired determination which is thing which worries maine astir having a boy. There are debased transgression rates determination successful general.”

And asked if she was frightened astir the levels of weapon violence, she added: “I americium precise worried. It's each I spot everyplace connected TV and successful the quality and it conscionable scares maine for the future. Obviously my lad is lone 2 but it’s an contented adjacent with superior schoolhouse aged kids and it has got truthful retired of manus successful London.

“I was watching a documentary the different time and a batch of the clip it’s implicit conscionable trivial matters similar idiosyncratic taking a snack that different idiosyncratic wants oregon adjacent mistaken identity. And I conscionable deliberation much needs to beryllium done but I don’t cognize erstwhile that is going to hap oregon how.”

There person been aggregate weapon transgression horrors successful the superior already this twelvemonth including a 15-year-old boy, Keylan Bokassa, being stabbed to decease connected a London treble decker. The Ben Kinsella Trust meantime recovered an 80 per cent summation successful police-recorded offences involving a weapon oregon crisp instrumentality successful the past decennary crossed England.

But distant from crime, Jodie told america determination are 4 different reasons she's keen to determination abroad.

She says she is fed up with costly rent prices and British weather, adding: “I deliberation this wintertime has been much acold and bedewed than ever. It conscionable feels ne'er ending. I can’t adjacent instrumentality my lad to the parkland astir days arsenic it keeps raining.”

Dubai stays sunny each twelvemonth circular with the maximum somesthesia successful August being 44C and the mean lowest being 30C. This is compared to the lowest period which is January wherever mean maximums are 25C portion the mean lowest is 14C.

And asked to grow connected her constituent astir her kid having much activities to take from successful Dubai, she mentioned things similar astir flat complexes having swimming pools.

As good arsenic the beach, she said she was besides encouraged by the brushed play options, outdoor playgrounds, kit flying and mini towns wherever kids tin thrust successful artifact cars.

Jodie, who said she has been looking astatine planetary schools costing from £3,000-£15,000 a year, added: “There’s besides taxable parks with kids rides, h2o parks with slides, sensory centres that are overmuch bigger than the ones we person here; everything conscionable seems a spot grander retired there.”

As for what excited her astir astir bringing up Koa successful Dubai, wherever she has visited before, she said: “Obviously it’s large to beryllium astir antithetic cultures and successful a cosmopolitan metropolis similar Dubai I deliberation you’d get a large scope of beingness acquisition and opportunities that you possibly wouldn’t if you stayed successful the UK.”

But she admits it's not each positive, explaining: “Obviously being successful an unfamiliar spot with immoderate strict laws and household not adjacent me.”

Among her different drawbacks were:

• Not being adjacent family

• Unfamiliar astatine archetypal

• Not being astir UK history

• Can beryllium immoderate strict laws astir what to deterioration / bash though these person eased successful caller times

The United Arab Emirates is known for its ultra-strict laws. British antheral Marcus Fakana, 18, was jailed for 1 twelvemonth for having a intersexual narration with a 17-year-old, who astatine that property is considered a minor.

Same-sex intersexual enactment is besides amerciable successful the UAE. The UK Government has besides warned that nationalist displays of affection similar kissing are frowned upon and could pb to arrests.

Books with themes of magic oregon witchcraft similar Harry Potter tin besides beryllium flagged astatine customs.

And arsenic for swearing, the UK Government said: ”It is amerciable to curse and marque rude gestures, including online, arsenic they are considered obscene acts. You could beryllium jailed oregon deported.”

Drinking oregon being nether the power of intoxicant successful nationalist is besides prohibited successful nationalist places.

The UK Government besides has warnings implicit societal media, saying: “It is amerciable to station material, including videos and photographs, online that is captious of the government, companies oregon individuals, oregon which relates to incidents successful the UAE.”