Brit who boasted about claiming advantages abroad ‘held in Thai jail’

Mum-of-three Ellis Matthews claimed she’d been living in Thailand on UK advantages (Picture: Tim Clarke)

A British TikToker who boasted of living in Thailand while claiming UK advantages says she is on hunger strike after being arrested by Thai authorities.

Mum-of-three Ellis Matthews, 32, is being held at a detention centre for moms with children in Bangkok with one in every of her sons, four-year-old Cairo.

She was detained earlier this month for allegedly overstaying her visa ten days after it was cancelled, MailOnline reports.

Thai officials were said to have taken motion after concerns were raised about Cairo’s welfare.

Ms Matthews blamed ‘people within the UK [who have been] trolling me’ online following controversy round her lifestyle.

Posting videos to 16,000 followers under an account titled ‘@mumontheruninasia’, she claimed she was receiving £2,300 in Disability Living Allowance ‘for the past 4 years of not living within the UK’.

14489767 Mum on the run: British woman detained in Thai jail boasts of claiming UK benefits — The 32-year-old insists she was ‘just joking’ about her advantages claims

She said she qualified resulting from her ‘six mental disorders’ which required ‘ongoing treatment costs to be met by the NHS by the taxpayer’.

British residents can receive certain UK advantages while living abroad in 17 countries, though Thailand shouldn’t be amongst them.

Ms Matthews now insists her videos were ‘only a joke’ and that she was ‘lying … to get more followers’.

She claims she has been refusing to eat for 2 days in protest at conditions within the detention centre, which she claims is ‘hell on earth’.

Speaking from the power, she told MailOnline: ‘I’m locked up in a cell for a lot of the day with 16 other people and none of them speak English. It’s so hot and overcrowded that you would be able to barely breathe.