experience a conflict-free life. Something neither had had in their short lives.'

After their relationship broke down in 2012, a family court in Dartford ordered that custody be shared between the biological parents.

In April 2017 the mother-of-three was arrested in Sitka, an island town in the south of Alaska 4,500 miles from where she lived in England until 2015

The judge also ordered that each parent must hold one of the girls' passports and Ford failed in May 2015 to get a family court to approve their move to the US.

But her sentencing hearing was told how the father went round to collect the girls on October 3, 2015, and could not find them.

The father called police and they learned the girls had left a day earlier on a flightthe children or the leave of the court.

'There has been an acrimonious relationship between Indea Ford and the girl's father.'

The police became involved and Ford, who has a child with her new husband, was extradited in April.

The children remain with their stepfather in the US state. Their father was not in court.

Ford is likely to be released in about nine months, having already served time in custody on both sides of the Atlantic

In April 2017 the mother-of-three was arrested in Sitka, an island town in the south of Alaska 4,500 miles from where she lived in England until 2015.

She has been in custody in America and the UK since her arrest in January this year. Her parents, who also live in the States, sat in the public gallery.

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