10 years of legal battles, 30 court hearings, 60 court orders and 6 judgements have failed to resolve an embittered parental dispute over the care of one British child. That child and her mother are now settled in Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus – which has no extradition treaty with the UK.
And it’s become one of more than a hundred cases prosecuted for child abduction. The father has described it as every parent’s nightmare. Channel 4 News has been granted what’s called a transparency order, to reveal what goes on behind the usually closed doors of the family courts.
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