Ashya King's Parents Released from Prison
119 views · Published 3 September 2014 · 0:53 · Indexed 23 September 2026
Channel: IBTimes UK · 2014 · News & Politics
Brett and Naghemeh King, the parents of five-year-old Ashya, have been freed from separate Madrid prisons and are believed to be making the 330-mile journey back to Malaga by car to be with their seriously ill son. The couple, who removed their son from a Southampton hospital against medical advice and took him to Spain in a bid to get better care for his brain tumour, were released after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) withdrew a European arrest warrant. The case has caused controversy in the UK, where many people felt arresting the couple and separating them from Ashya was grossly disproportionate. A petition calling for the family to be reunited has already had more than 100,000 signatures.
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