Abductor Father Makes Us 'Torture' Claim at Hearing [Edition 2]

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A divorced father convicted of abducting his son and taking him to the United States was "tortured" while in custody in America, it has been claimed in court.

The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of abduction by a jury at Taunton Crown Court yesterday. He was also found guilty of making an untrue statement to obtain a passport for the boy. Fiona Elder, prosecuting, said that a court had also ordered that the father hand the boy's passport to his mother because of fears that he might take the boy to America.

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Abductor Father Makes Us 'Torture' Claim at Hearing [Edition 2]

But after handing over the passport the father, who lived in Yeovil, obtained a new one by...

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