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of events. Safraz's

1:01

former partner and Amina's

1:04

mother, Hamada, was

1:06

not reachable for comment.

1:12

All of us, at one point or

1:14

another, have experienced that sudden

1:17

unsettling sensation that

1:19

something is off. A

1:21

creeping sense of dread which

1:24

tells us that all is not right

1:26

with the world. An

1:28

inkling that we can't entirely explain

1:31

but nevertheless we're incapable

1:34

of shaking. We

1:36

tell ourselves we're being silly, paranoid.

1:40

We try and push the feeling away. But

1:44

sometimes that instinct is

1:46

right. In late

1:49

August 2011, after

1:51

Dr Safraz Khan had dropped

1:53

off his six-year-old daughter, Amina, at his

1:55

mother-in-law's house in South London, his stomach

1:58

begun tying.

5:45

And

6:00

I probably could have ended up marrying her, but I think

6:02

my parents would have, my mum would have objected,

6:05

my sister, my family weren't very

6:07

open-minded and a bit narrow-minded and

6:10

on things like that and they would just wouldn't accept

6:12

anybody from maybe from a different culture,

6:15

to be honest.

6:16

Eventually, Safra has made

6:18

the decision to return to the

6:19

UK, at which

6:21

point his family strongly suggested it

6:24

was time to settle down.

6:26

My mum said, look, you need to get married

6:28

now.

6:30

And before long, Safra has found

6:32

himself contemplating an arranged

6:34

marriage. It's not forced on you and

6:36

I know it does happen in many, but for

6:38

me, my parents said, look,

6:40

I'm trying to get you married, I'm just looking at contacts

6:43

in the local community and who's doing

6:45

the marriage activities. And so,

6:47

with my mum and on my own,

6:50

I probably saw lots of women and it was where

6:52

you just have maybe a first family introduction

6:54

or you go and meet the person on

6:56

your own and then you just basically

6:58

sound each other out. When I was

7:01

looking, I just found it hard, really,

7:03

to be honest, to

7:05

connect with a lot of these women. And then after

7:08

seeing like 90 girls and stuff

7:10

like that on my own

7:13

with my mum, there wasn't really many

7:16

opportunities left. Generally, you find

7:18

one person that you like and you spend

7:20

at least anywhere from six to 12 months

7:23

to organize the wedding, get all the family available

7:26

for the wedding dates because we have like two or three

7:29

events. What I was doing

7:31

was I was dreaming about this

7:34

relationship I had in Japan and I was

7:36

looking for that in my own

7:38

community, looking for that kind of

7:40

person, those attributes and

7:44

I couldn't find it, literally, because everybody's different,

7:46

right? And that's what delayed the process.

7:50

Then, after more than two years

7:52

of searching, Safra's met

7:54

Hamadar, a medical doctor

7:57

in training.

8:01

But I then met her,

8:03

I think we went out, walked

8:05

in the park and then we went out, I took

8:08

her to Covent Garden, went to a pizza, you

8:10

know, had dinner and then

8:12

after that I think we kind

8:14

of like said, alright fine, let's think about

8:17

what we're going to do.

8:21

Safraas and Hummer both believed

8:23

their union had the potential to be a successful

8:26

one,

8:27

so they decided to get married. A

8:29

year later, their daughter, Armana, was born

8:32

and she lit up both their lives.

8:34

She was really like a very happy child, playful,

8:38

she was intelligent, she wasn't one of these

8:40

babies that were crying and

8:42

moaning, she was quite content.

8:45

You know, for me she was my little princess and

8:48

I spent a lot of time with her actually, you know, instead

8:51

of all getting up at night and introducing

8:53

the first bottle. They used to take

8:55

her swimming from the age of six months and

8:58

I used to take her to the local leisure centre which was

9:00

really nice, she loved swimming from

9:02

that really young age of six months. I

9:04

mean she was always singing and dancing

9:06

and generally no issues, you know, whatever

9:10

happened between me and Hummer, we always tried

9:12

to shield Armana

9:14

from it and today she's a kid

9:17

and she doesn't need to be involved in what

9:19

happens between adults and relationships.

9:23

Sadly, Krak soon started

9:25

to appear in Safra's and Hummer's

9:27

marriage.

9:27

I think culturally we're two different families.

9:30

Here I'm independent, you know, of course I see my

9:33

family but I don't want to be every weekend

9:36

at my mum's house but it happens in our

9:38

culture where either the boy's

9:40

family, the girl's family, and sister, you've got to come

9:42

home every weekend. I didn't want that, right,

9:44

I wanted to build my relationship with her.

9:47

Hummer, on the other hand, was a homebody

9:50

and she wanted to be around her family at all

9:52

times.

9:53

Her family were really, really close.

9:55

It was like, in where they live in Morden, Hummer's

9:58

father lives in one house. with the mother and the

10:02

siblings. And then next door, literally adjacent,

10:04

is the other brother of Humma's

10:06

dad. And then across the road, there's another brother,

10:09

literally once 30

10:11

seconds up the road. And then you've got the sisters

10:14

living in and around, the houses, and it

10:16

was really, I didn't realize it was that type of

10:19

family, you know, environment, you know,

10:22

that sort of family lifestyle. Every

10:24

weekend, she wanted to go home, every

10:27

weekend. And it just created

10:29

a lot of issues.

10:35

Safrass was hoping they could find a middle

10:37

ground, one that would allow them

10:39

some privacy from time to time, away

10:42

from what he felt were the prying eyes

10:44

of relatives.

10:45

That also caused a lot of problems. And,

10:48

you know, I wouldn't say I handled

10:50

it very well. I don't think I did.

10:52

But I'm the kind of person, you know,

10:55

either black or white, you know, in a sense that,

10:57

you know, I'm not wishy-washy or

10:59

very vague. That's

11:02

how I conduct my business. That's how I

11:04

work and deal with things in life, just

11:06

to be straight up, you know?

11:08

Safrass and Humma's different points

11:10

of view about how to spend their time

11:12

meant relations between the two

11:14

of them cooled significantly. But

11:17

Safrass is keen to stress that

11:19

any fighting that occurred was purely

11:22

verbal.

11:22

There was no violence, no abuse,

11:24

no, you know, there was no nothing like that. It's

11:27

just that we're just not getting on.

11:30

It was a shame because, you know, we're both... On

11:33

paper, we look good. On the photograph, we look good. But

11:36

in reality, we just weren't

11:38

suited for each other, I don't think.

11:40

Both Safrass and Humma worked

11:42

full-time jobs.

11:44

As such, they split the household

11:46

chores and childcare down the middle.

11:49

But as time went on and the couple found

11:51

themselves increasingly at odds, more

11:54

and more of these duties were being left

11:56

to Safrass.

11:58

What was happening was that Humma was going to work...

11:59

work

12:00

in May Day and she wasn't coming back

12:02

home. She was going to Morden,

12:05

which I think was equidistant I think, or

12:08

more or less, between the two

12:10

routes and she wasn't

12:12

coming home. So she'd come home on a Friday,

12:14

Saturday morning she'd take

12:17

Armina to her mum's, I'd be at home, come

12:19

back on Sunday, then

12:21

on Monday, Tuesday she'd go back to her mum's and

12:23

then I'm literally looking after Armina

12:26

Monday to Friday, you know, taking her

12:28

to dinner and she'd get all her lunches ready. If

12:30

I didn't cook the food, if I didn't

12:32

clean the house, if I didn't empty the bins, she

12:34

wouldn't do it. I could live with the fact

12:37

that if I had to do the cooking and cleaning, go to work

12:39

and buy the shopping, I could live with that. That's

12:41

not an issue for me, you know. The

12:43

issue was the relationship. There was nothing

12:45

there, I mean there was just nothing. There

12:48

was no bond and she was committed

12:50

to her family but she wasn't committed to her husband or

12:52

her child and I don't think she

12:54

could see that.

12:56

The constant bickering created a lot

12:58

of stress.

12:59

Safras knew his marriage was in trouble

13:02

but he didn't realise quite how

13:04

bad things were until one evening

13:07

when he came across a job application

13:09

on the laptop he and Hummer shared.

13:16

I thought she was applying for jobs in Oxfordshire.

13:19

Unbeknown to me she'd been communicating with

13:21

her family and

13:24

she was applying for jobs in

13:26

Bermuda and we were living in

13:28

Oxford and Armina was a baby, literally

13:31

a baby and

13:33

she was going to do a one-year or two-year

13:35

exchange programme where somebody from Bermuda

13:37

comes and works in the Oxford Church and she then goes

13:39

to Bermuda to work

13:42

as a doctor and she told

13:44

her family this. She didn't communicate anything, she

13:46

was going to take Armina and I was

13:49

not even aware of that at all.

13:54

For Safras, alarm bells immediately

13:56

started ringing.

13:58

He'd stumbled across what appeared

16:00

Canada, and Ghistan,

16:03

Kenya, you know so really and

16:05

I thought I'm never gonna find my

16:07

daughter if she goes so all I did was I got

16:09

a prohibited steps order to stop her from taking

16:11

Armana out of the jurisdiction which

16:14

means that I went to court, made an

16:16

application to say look I have concerns

16:18

that my wife will take

16:20

my daughter overseas and

16:22

not bring her back.

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In 2008 the couple

17:57

went their separate ways.

19:14

And

20:00

I was being really, really grilled by the

20:02

police, really for a long, long time. As

20:05

if I was the one that was, you know, the

20:07

guilty party and that sort of thing. I'm the one that got

20:09

hit. And that's evidenced by

20:11

the police at the time. But then

20:14

that was it. So she went back to

20:16

her house. I was in my house. Then

20:21

basically the custody hearing started.

20:26

Safras wanted primary custody

20:28

of Armina,

20:29

but he knew that it would be an uphill battle.

20:32

He hired lawyers,

20:34

prepared the best case he could.

20:36

And to his complete and utter surprise,

20:39

he won.

20:43

It was extremely shocking. I

20:45

mean, it wasn't shocking. I think it was a very,

20:47

at that time back in 2008, that was a

20:49

verdict which was slightly

20:53

unheard of, right? Majority

20:55

of men do not get

20:58

custody. But I had

21:00

demonstrated, and

21:02

it was evidenced

21:04

by statements from

21:06

independent organizations like the Nurseries

21:09

and stuff, and that I

21:12

was the primary carer. And I was

21:14

maintaining a substantial

21:16

degree of routine and

21:18

structure in Armina's life, right? She

21:21

had a home. She was going to nursery.

21:24

She had regular activities, regular routine.

21:26

There was stability. Hummer

21:28

was not providing that. She

21:30

was very, very home. She had really had

21:32

very rare interactions with the

21:35

nursery. We both had to give evidence

21:37

to the judge. And in

21:40

the course of that, the thing

21:42

about going to Bimuda came up. And

21:44

when the judge asked Hummer,

21:47

did you make an application to go

21:49

to Bimuda? She lied. She

21:52

said, no, I never did.

21:54

When you lie like that blatantly, and

21:56

then I produce the emails and

21:58

all the correspondence, and that's quite a significant

22:01

lie, that you're gonna take the child

22:03

out of the jurisdiction and that you're

22:06

lying to a judge.

22:08

Saffras was over the moon when the

22:10

court ruled in his favor, but

22:13

he wasn't spiteful in victory. He

22:15

knew that Armina wanted Hummer to be in her

22:17

life and he wasn't about to get

22:19

in the way.

22:21

I tried to be as generous as possible. I,

22:23

you know, she's the mother, so I

22:26

offered her three weekends out of four, shared

22:28

holidays, which I do regret now.

22:31

That's when all the problems started. You

22:33

know, as soon as we got the custody, I

22:35

thought things were gonna be better and

22:37

then it was just a nightmare.

22:42

Every pickup and drop-off became a

22:45

battle

22:45

and Armina was getting caught in

22:48

the crossfire.

22:50

What they would do, they would keep me waiting from six

22:52

o'clock all the way to seven

22:55

or seven, but they refused to just come out on time.

22:59

And then I used to wait for an

23:01

hour quite patiently to get

23:03

Armina back. And sometimes

23:05

I had to call the police because

23:08

they were just playing silly games and then they

23:10

would bring Armina out distressed

23:12

and crying. You know, they

23:14

used to alienate Armina

23:17

against me and saying it, you

23:19

know, and all this. And it went

23:21

on. It was really, I suffered so much anxiety

23:24

having to collect my daughter from Morden

23:26

because of the games that Huma used

23:28

to play.

23:30

These dramatic exchanges were having

23:32

a detrimental effect on Armina's

23:34

wellbeing.

23:36

They would traumatise her during the handover,

23:38

right? Oh, you're leaving your mum, your this,

23:41

your that, and just, she's, my daughter used

23:43

to come out hysterically crying because

23:45

the mother was trying to tell her not to go with

23:47

me. But then what would happen, by the time

23:49

we get home, she was, then she would calm down. Then

23:51

she was out of that environment and then she was back

23:53

to normal. Then

23:56

what was happening during that time, she was starting

23:58

to fuck her lip. Yeah.

27:57

needed

28:00

to get out of the country.

28:03

She managed to walk into that embassy,

28:06

get a passport made for a child

28:09

that's never lived in Pakistan ever,

28:11

never been to that country, she's six years

28:14

old and without

28:16

any proof or consent

28:19

from the other parent, they just went

28:21

ahead and just did the form, right? Without

28:25

any checks. And

28:28

I got an order against the Pakistani embassy

28:30

from the High Court requesting

28:32

that information. They point back lies, not

28:34

only to me and the solicitor but to

28:36

the High Court. And

28:38

this takes a lot of time. This is not just something

28:40

that's calculated. This is like

28:43

a mother, a desperate mother. This has been properly

28:45

planned.

28:47

Hummer had flown from London to Lahore

28:50

via Qatar.

28:51

There's a call made from the aunt to

28:54

the family home and I suspect that call was to

28:56

say, yeah, she's arrived safely.

28:59

Safra has used every legal tool

29:01

he could think of to find out

29:04

his ex-wife's exact location.

29:06

But Hummer's family remained tight-lipped.

29:10

Even the travel agent was not

29:12

playing ball. They refused to provide

29:14

the evidence. They refused

29:16

to provide who came in to buy the tickets.

29:19

When Safra's got the official confirmation

29:21

about the Pakistani passports, his

29:24

heart sank.

29:25

She went to obviously one of the worst places in

29:27

the world, which is Pakistan, with so

29:29

much corruption, so much

29:32

dishonesty, murders and God

29:34

knows what. And at that time

29:37

when she abducted Arman,

29:40

the Taliban were certainly prolific. You

29:43

have loads of bombings in the

29:46

north of Pakistan, bombings

29:48

in schools and all that stuff. And then

29:50

you've got young girls being attacked

29:53

by all these sort of things that she

29:55

took her there. And this is a child

29:57

that is not native to Pakistan. speak

30:00

the language.

30:01

Hama herself wasn't a Pakistani

30:03

citizen, but her family had

30:06

connections all over the country, mainly

30:08

through her uncle, a powerful

30:11

man by the name of Dr Zayed

30:13

Zahir.

30:15

Safranz, on the other hand, didn't

30:17

have friends or family in high places. There

30:20

wasn't anyone who could put in a call or

30:23

do him a favour, leaving

30:25

him relying almost entirely

30:27

on the UK legal system.

30:29

When you're dealing with the police

30:31

and the courts, especially

30:33

the police, being in the terrible

30:36

diet situation they are currently, they

30:38

didn't view me in the same way they would

30:41

have viewed a mother, or they didn't view it

30:43

in the same way or pursued it in the same way. And

30:46

trust me, I tried. I

30:48

had one officer called Gary Davison who I was

30:50

the liaise with. I mean, he did his best

30:53

as much as possible, but there could have been, you know, Hama,

30:55

I don't even know whether she was on the Interpol alert

30:58

as a wanted person because at the end

31:01

of the day, I mean, she's taken my daughter away. She's

31:03

taken away from her home, from her country. And

31:06

she's robbed me of all that happiness

31:08

and all that interaction with her

31:10

father, with her family, with her friends,

31:12

with her, with the environment

31:15

which she's accustomed to and

31:17

then taken to Pakistan. I'm sure she's going to have

31:19

a good time out there, you know, good life, maybe

31:21

wealthy, but it's a different culture,

31:23

different environment.

31:25

Every time Safra has engaged with the

31:27

authorities, whether it was the police

31:29

or the passport office, he knew that

31:31

people would inevitably make assumptions about

31:34

his case.

31:39

Because they think, well, why did she abduct the child? It

31:41

must be because her father's violent must be, you

31:43

know, there's always got to be a reason why

31:46

the mother abducts the child,

31:49

right? I'm a man, I just have to

31:51

deal with it. And that generally is the

31:53

constant feeling. There's no sympathy or

31:55

understanding why this man, why this

31:57

father is trying to pursue the child.

35:59

pushing for the case for the search.

36:02

Doing his job, he got taken

36:04

off because they have family are extremely well

36:06

connected. The doctors are here,

36:08

he was affiliated with one of the parties over there, campaigning

36:12

and all that nonsense.

36:13

Safras made multiple trips, each

36:16

time finding himself in increasingly

36:18

odd situations.

36:20

I remember going into, he

36:22

was a former police officer in Karachi,

36:25

a DIG, who was

36:28

able to give me believe

36:30

it or not, all the flight details,

36:33

travel documents for the family members coming

36:35

into Pakistan. I had that evidence.

36:39

I also went to his house

36:42

in, I think in Islamabad. And

36:44

we're talking about a house in which there

36:47

is his, the brother-in-law of

36:49

a really influential foreign minister.

36:52

And I remember there was armed guards, people

36:54

on jeeps with guns and stuff, and

36:56

going into this house, palatial house, and

36:59

seeing all these photographs of

37:01

Tony Blair and Bush, George

37:03

Bush, for example,

37:05

with this foreign minister and asking

37:07

help.

37:08

Now, honestly, this is crazy

37:10

reality of this child reduction,

37:13

that I'm in this house and I'm seeing all these photographs

37:15

of this foreign minister with all these influential people.

37:18

Every time Safras hit a wall, he

37:20

changed tactics.

37:22

I wrote

37:23

to every school in Pakistan.

37:26

I mean, that must have cost me about

37:28

five, six hundred pounds or so,

37:31

right? All the envelopes,

37:33

all the paper, all the postage.

37:36

I wrote to every school. I was so desperate

37:38

to find my daughter. I sent posters

37:41

of all the family members, the court orders.

37:44

There was an indication

37:46

that Amna was at one of the schools. It

37:49

was alleged that she was there, but the school didn't

37:51

cooperate with me. The police did investigate

37:54

it. It was a very famous international

37:56

school. They've got sites in the UK

37:59

and they've got sites. there but once they knew about the

38:01

abduction and then what I was asking they

38:03

refused to cooperate.

38:05

Safra's made five trips to Pakistan

38:08

over the course of several years but

38:10

he knew he couldn't carry on like

38:13

this indefinitely.

38:17

My wife, her wife was

38:19

not happy you know because he wasn't, he

38:21

worked all her hard all her life and she

38:24

supported me 100% in this but

38:26

it came to a point where I had to remortgage

38:29

the house. I was so much

38:31

money and it really

38:33

affected me.

38:34

Armina's abduction had far

38:36

reaching psychological consequences

38:39

for Safra's.

38:40

I had subsequently had a daughter

38:43

who I really couldn't connect with really well because

38:45

of the fear of not knowing

38:47

if she's going to be around and might lose

38:50

her for whatever reason.

38:51

And he's tortured himself for years

38:54

thinking about what he could have done differently.

38:57

I didn't take stronger action. I should have gone

38:59

straight to court back to court

39:01

but I didn't and that I

39:05

just didn't react on it. I did the right

39:07

thing in sending the letter in 2010 but

39:10

I just didn't respond take

39:13

you know more prohibitive action.

39:16

Whilst he was making his trips back and forth

39:19

to Pakistan, Safra's

39:21

was in an ongoing legal battle

39:23

with Hummer's family in the UK. He

39:26

was accusing them of being complicit

39:28

in Armina's abduction, a

39:31

case which Safra's lost. But

39:34

he believed that this was largely down to

39:36

inadequate legal representation.

39:39

I'll never forget that day because you know

39:41

the barristers and solicitors were doing high

39:43

fives and they were laughing and they were really

39:45

heavy. All the sort

39:47

of circumstantial evidence there was certainly enough

39:49

to imply that Hummer didn't act

39:52

alone. It was impossible for her to act alone. She didn't have

39:54

the bandwidth or the capability to do it as a

39:56

family member was quite instrumental. After

39:59

the verdict, which

39:59

left Safra's with a legal bill in the tens

40:02

of thousands.

40:02

He made one last

40:04

ditch effort to locate Armana.

40:08

I then decided to get a

40:10

secret investigator to

40:13

investigate the family at that point

40:15

because I thought they were going to go to Pakistan and they were going to be

40:17

really complacent, it's all over. And

40:20

Humma was seen

40:23

with the family members. They

40:27

had gone to Kashmir and Gujarat and

40:29

all that place and they were found. So

40:31

I quickly went to Pakistan. Prior

40:34

to that, the mother and the Sathya Osman

40:36

Dhara and Manavadhar, the mother got arrested

40:39

and detained and they said,

40:42

on their belongings was all of Armana's

40:44

stuff. All the

40:46

stuff that they took from London was

40:48

in a bag. They had all of the Humma's

40:51

clothes, they had all of the stuff that they

40:53

were going to put on Armana's clothes, they had her toys,

40:55

they had a DVD that I bought.

40:57

All these items, they had a Game

41:00

Boy toy, all of that.

41:03

And that was it. I thought that's it. They got

41:05

them. And then they wrote in a statement

41:07

that they were going to bring back Humma. They were

41:10

going to tell Humma to come to the police station. This

41:12

police officer was really doing a good job.

41:14

He got them to write these same things. They were

41:16

going to bring her back and then she can then go to court and they could

41:18

make a speech.

41:22

They can make a court application and then

41:24

they can contest what they need to contest.

41:27

And then I got there. I remember seeing

41:30

that, his face, Osman Dhara's face in

41:32

the place in the same room and I got really angry. I

41:34

felt like really

41:36

just getting angry. But I had to contain myself. Then

41:39

they did a 360 and denied the statement, denied this

41:43

and denied that.

41:44

Once again, Humma's family connections

41:47

were enough to keep them out of any

41:49

real trouble.

41:51

I just lost all hope. And then I went into

41:53

this depression. 2013 to

41:57

2015 just really struggled through life in general.

42:00

In July 2013, Hummer

42:03

was struck off the medical register in the

42:05

UK.

42:06

The General Medical Council ruled that

42:09

her actions had brought the profession

42:11

into disrepute.

42:14

Safra has documented all his efforts

42:16

to find Armina on a website, in

42:19

the hope that one day

42:20

she might, out of curiosity,

42:23

Google herself and learn the

42:25

truth about her abduction.

42:27

You know, in these child abductions there's

42:29

a thing called parental alienation. When

42:31

she was six years old she was a very intelligent bright child.

42:34

You know, she was the kind of kid that was reading, writing,

42:38

singing songs on YouTube and stuff

42:40

like that. She was a smart kid for her age. I

42:46

don't understand, she's 18 years old, what

42:49

Hummer and her family have said and brainwashed

42:51

her to prevent a child

42:54

where internet, access, mobile phones,

42:56

internet, all of that is so easily

42:58

readily available. What

43:00

they've said to her, you know, to

43:03

maybe where

43:06

you've got natural curiosity as to

43:08

where, why, where's my father gone? You

43:10

know, where is my father? And

43:12

ask her questions that maybe she's

43:15

not, I don't know why she's not answering,

43:17

you know, figuring out, I'm in Pakistan,

43:20

where's my father? Everybody

43:23

else has got a father and a mother, where's my father? Or

43:26

why she's not

43:28

doing any self, you know, discrete

43:30

investigations of self to reach out to

43:32

me? I just don't know and I suspect they probably

43:35

told them either I'm either dead or I

43:37

was this, I was that or God knows what.

43:41

Unsurprisingly, this whole

43:43

ordeal has completely undermined

43:45

Safra's trust in the legal system.

43:48

You know, I'd want that to

43:51

say to everyone, the police here, the judge

43:53

of courts, I told you I was right all along. They

43:56

were implicit in this abduction and

43:58

they did.

45:57

perhaps

46:00

she might start to ask questions about her

46:03

dad or even, Safra's

46:06

hopes, try and seek him out herself.

46:08

It's

46:09

been 12 years since I last saw her,

46:11

so trying to disrupt

46:13

her and disturb her at this

46:16

point is rootless.

46:17

I want to obviously to

46:20

find her, of course I do, but

46:23

the time has passed now where I wanted

46:25

her back in the legal sense, in

46:27

that sense, because she's 18 years old now.

46:30

And so that outlook

46:33

has changed. I certainly would love to have

46:36

interactions with her, but not with

46:38

the view of getting

46:42

her back to the UK permanently. She's now an adult,

46:44

she's 18, she's probably

46:46

in education. But certainly those people

46:49

that did the abduction, yeah, I

46:52

mean, they need to be punished. And that's

46:55

why I don't think Amina would ever come forward anyway, because

46:59

I would demand that she tell me exactly

47:01

who she interacted with, where she

47:03

went, who she did, you know, I'd want

47:05

that.

47:06

Safra has two young children. He's

47:09

told them about Amina and they're

47:11

keen to meet their older sister. He

47:14

remains hopeful

47:16

that one day that will happen.

47:24

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47:30

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