Sisters abandoned at Stansted Airport
Two sisters, aged 11 and 12, were abandoned in Stansted Airport’s car park while their uncle and grandmother flew off to Corfu, according to newspaper reports.
The Daily Telegraph today tells the tale of how the two girls were left in the car park because their passports were out of date and they were told they would not be able to fly.
Instead of missing the flight, the newspaper reports, the two adults called the girls’ mother in Yorkshire and told her to collect them from the airport. The mother then called a friend in Milton Keynes – closer to Stansted – asking her to collect the two girls even though she had never met them.
The friend then called police, who found the girls “safe and well” in the uncle’s Ford Focus car. Officers arrested the pair of adults on suspicion of child cruelty, the Telegraph reports, but cautioned and released them.
A police spokesman is quoted as saying: “This is an example of how not to be a good guardian. I dread to think what ordeal the young girls went through, seeing their relatives disappear on holiday and waiting to be collected by a complete stranger.”
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad Ltd
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