I moved to Cyprus in 2012 after a particularly acrimonious split from my partner who had not bothered to support or even play any part in his children's lives since 2006. He never had Parental Responsibility; We were not married, children both born prior 1 December 2003 (when law changed ref. father's name on Birth Certificate giving auto PR) and he had never gained PR through any Court Order. Indeed in July 2006 when I gained full residence for the children at the RCJ, he asked for PR, but it was denied, so he was told that he would have to apply separately to the Court, which he never did. He soon gained other expensive tastes, and diverted his attention elsewhere.
In January 2009, he got a restraining order out against me, so as to stop me trying to bother him about the children, and support for same. He had no right to gain a restraining order in the Jurisdiction of England & Wales, as by this time he was living a caricature life, in Grenada (Caribbean) as a diving instructor, and of course evading child support. He paid 1p by BACS in July 2010 to my account, and I later discovered he had embezzled hundreds of £s from the children's bank accounts too.
In January 2011, I sent him 2 x emails to Grenada re his negative behaviour and got arrested and prosecuted for that (ref the restraining order). And as is, when the police get involved and there are children in the mix, in wade Social Services with their "At Risk" plans. A year later both my children were subjects of "Child Protection Plans" under the guise "at risk from emotional harm" due to the acrimony between me and this man, who did not want his own children (he did not even acknowledge their birthdays), only he was clearly hell bent on them being taken off me, so as I would stop chasing him for money.
In April 2012 after years of putting up with so much, I along with my then 8 yr old daughter and 10 yr old son, moved to Cyprus where we built a new life. I just had to protect my children at ALL Costs. They both settled, I paid for Private School, where they excelled both academically and in other ways. I even had a tourism business.
On Saturday 12th November 2016 we were enjoying coffee in Starbucks in Nicosia, only to then be surrounded by plain clothed police officers waiving a European Arrest Warrant for my arrest, siting an allegation of "Child Abduction". THAT WAS THE LAST TIME, MY CHILDREN (by then 13 and almost 15) and I, were a FAMILY. We were torn apart at the Police Station, my children crying; I was sent to jail, and my son and daughter separated from one another, as they have been ever since.
On 25th January 2017, 2 x Surrey Children's Services social workers collected my children from Cyprus, whilst I was collected by 3 x Surrey Police a day earlier. On arrival back in the UK my son was sent to a care home in Guildford where he has remained ever since, and my daughter sent to a pair of young bible bashing foster carers who have totally brainwashed her, miles from where my son lives, so as now they have grown apart.
After months in a UK Prison, on remand without any trial, the Child Abduction Charges were dropped in July 2017 before a circuit Judge at Guildford Crown Court, as there simply was NO EVIDENCE, so how an earth a previous senior Crown Court Judge in Canterbury could have allowed the issuance of an European Arrest Warrant beggars belief, but the public needs to be aware that the Police & the Crown Prosecution Service, manipulate information, and withhold information that would incriminate them, so as to get what they want, i.e., hit their targets, AT ANY COST.
That said, because the male Circuit Judge (recently appointed to Guildford CC) had no experience of such cases, after dismissing the Child Abduction charges (based on the 1989 Children's Act, I only needed MY own written permission to remove my children from the jurisdiction as I was the only person with PR), he threw the book at me for sending emails to my ex partner in 2012 from Kyrenia (part of a de facto State), re his abhorrent behavior. You see the CPS having failed in their mission to get me prosecuted for Child Abduction, and having spent thousands of £'s of tax payers money on the case (European Arrest Warrants are for serious crime, and the UK issues approx 170 per year to other EU States), they lied to the Judge, and made out that I had deprived Mr. P of his children! So for breaching a restraining order, I got a sentence of 32 months, of which I had to serve half. And the Judge who clearly did not read the bundle put before him, stated that my children would end up hating ME for what I had done to them in his summing up. It did not even register with him either, that I had spent 74 days incarcerated in Cyprus, and I just wish in retrospect that I had taken the remaining "Breach of a Restraining Order" to trial so as my son could have given evidence, but the barrister that I had for the day, just said you will be out by lunchtime (after the Child Abduction got dropped in the morning), so just admit to sending the mails! I really did not want to put my son through more upset, and we thought then that we would be back in Cyprus within weeks. NOT TO BE....
I was finally released from Prison at the end of March 2018, having spent way longer inside than I should have done, due to another mess up of that same circuit Judge, and also both HMP Bronzefield and HMP Send recording on my NOMIS Records that I had been convicted of Child Abduction (UNTRUE), which resulted in my not being eligible for early release. This of course then got spread around various other agencies including that of Social Services, so then I become a Person Posing a Risk of Serious Harm to Children.
On my release in March 2018, I was presented with a Licence, that prevented me from having any direct or indirect contact with my children, and of course bore no relation at all to the indictment of "Breach of a Restraining Order". Three days after my release 2 Surrey Children's Service Social Workers turned up at my father's address where I am temporarily living, asking that we sign a further agreement with further restrictions. My father and I refused to sign. My father who is 86 has been fighting my case relentlessly all the time I was incarcerated.
A week later, when I knew my son to be at Alton Towers with his care workers on a trip during half term, I went to the care home where he was living so as to seek out the Manager, so as I could introduce myself, and ask for help. She was not there so I left without fuss, and a few days later I got recalled to prison for a further 28 days on an allegation of breaching my licence conditions, stating that I had attempted to enter the care home so as to make contact with my son! This had been instigated by one of the women social workers whom had come to my father's house.... She has now left, and so too the probation woman who signed that recall off, on behalf of the "Secretary of State for Justice". These people, just did not care less what affect their behavior might have on my poor son.
Having gone through all of that, my son who is now rising 17 has fought so much to be reunited with me, that we can now see each other unsupervised during the day 3 times per week. Surrey Children's Services have Full Care Orders on both my children and are putting every obstacle in my way. My son has been so damaged by his experience. Just 2 weeks ago I did finally meet the manager of the Care Home, and she said to me that she just could not believe that my son had been put in that place. She told me that a Social Worker had called them from Cyprus when they collected both my children, looking for a bed for him (so that is how they MATCH?).... She just knew that my son had been brought up well, as he IS or WAS so different from all the other young people, taking drugs, absconding, thieving, and academically not performing well. Like the kids of mothers I had to associate with in prison.... On my recent recall, I even had boiling sugar laden hot water chucked at me having been wrongly labelled a child abuser. MY SON WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN, and nor will I.... He lost his mum, his enthusiasm, his work ethics, and has put on almost 4 stone.
I have still not seen my daughter, and my son and daughter are torn apart. My daughter was put with a couple who have brainwashed her (they appear to belong to some Bible Bashing Cult, promoting "Learning what it means to follow Jesus"). They have caused a wedge and clearly also have the been fed the wrong information by Social Services, and Mr. P who now pays £7-50 a week pocket money for both of his children... A damn site less than the thousands he would have had to pay in Child Support. And of course, he got his way in the end, the children torn from their mother. A Court Order from April 2017, clearly stated he was "Not seeking to care for them".
Whilst in prison I was given a telephone number on which I could reach this woman who professes to be my daughter's Foster Carer, and she never picked up her phone. Since my release she has not picked up her phone and has now disconnected the number. My daughter called me 27 May 2018 for 36 minutes and 17 seconds, upset because I did not care about her, and wondering why I had not contacted her? A few days ago I sent her an email, it bounced back, my son sent her one and it didn't. My daughter denied blocking my mails, so clearly someone is tampering with her account. I have tried to send her blank messages in an effort to have her call me again. I do know where she is staying, but this is only through my own efforts of research. I have told Surrey Children's Services I want contact with my daughter, and they are saying she does not want contact with me. This is outrageous, and I face re-arrest for just trying to contact her.
I just wish someone could pick up this story and blast it all over the media. I can not begin to tell you how I feel. I am almost 59 years old, and if it were not for my children, I just would not have got through all of this.... A family torn apart by the State.