Couple lose custody of children after ‘school security concerns’
5th July 2009
Telling the school that the children were related to European royalty and that his brother was a senior Army officer, the father is said to have asked for permission – which was granted – to pick up his children inside the two schools attended by his eldest children.
However, one of the head teachers went to the police because of her “concerns”.
Lord Monckton, who has investigated the allegations, described the episode as “the worst case of child abduction by social services that I have ever come across”.
He accused a social worker and a police officer, both female, of plotting together against the couple, who live in the east of England.
The father has told the peer that when he was asked to accompany her, he demanded to see her identification but she refused to show him. He claims he was then hancuffed by two police officers.
His wife was also detained when she went to remonstrate, and their youngest child was taken away screaming, according to the family’s account. Later all three children were taken into care.
Good thing they weren’t Mormons — they’d never get their kids back.