Like most teenage boys Dylan* heads straight to the fridge the moment he gets home from school. At 16, he’s also at that stage where he seems incapable of hanging up his blazer.
‘I didn’t have time, Mum!’ he protests – a refrain familiar to all parents.
His mother Erin*, however, isn’t complaining. She’s relishing every moment. Because until last November, Erin hadn’t seen her son for six years.
He was taken from her aged nine by the family court, along with his then 12-year-old sister, and she was barred from any form of contact on pain of arrest.
She wasn’t even allowed to
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