Father Kidnaps Children from 'Too Western' UK

Herts and Essex Observer :  A Libyan Muslim took his two children from their home in Birmingham to Libya after telling his estranged wife that the UK was "too western", lawyers say.

Jamal Dgham, 35, is unlawfully keeping daughter Aisha, four, and son Zakaria, who will be two in February, in Libya, say solicitors representing the children's mother, Priscilla Micalleff, 30. Lawyers say the children - thought to be in the Bin Ashur area of Tripoli at the home of Mr Dgham's mother - are being unlawfully retained in breach of a court order made in England.

They said Mr Dgham had texted Miss Micalleff saying: "u r not gona hear or c the kids anymore". A High Court judge has given permission for the detail of the case to be published - following private hearings in the Family Division of the High Court - in the hope that publicity will help secure the children's return to England. Solicitor Pam Sanghera, who represents Miss Micalleff, gave details in a statement released with the permission of Mr Justice Wood.

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