Case No. EWFC-85

15.The father is from a region of the UK and the mother originates from Country P and has also lived in Country Q. They met via a website in 2009 and the mother moved from Country Q to the UK in 2011. They married in September 2011, having not cohabited prior to the wedding. Both are well-educated and articulate. The mother gave evidence in excellent English, and has made no request for a translator. 16.The family lived in the father’s local area in the UK from 2016. The father was the breadwinner, working in fraud prevention in a role that required travel within the UK. The mother assumed a role as the main carer for the children, earning only limited sums of ‘pin-money’, for example baby-siting for a friend. 17.The marriage ran into trouble and the parents separated in April 2019, when the father moved from the family home to live in his parents’ home nearby. A reconciliation was attempted in the summer of 2019, but by late July the parents had separated again, with the mother and children remaining in the family home and the father visiting very frequently, by agreement. On 10 August 2019 the mother recorded Yasmin making an allegation of inappropriate sexual touching by her father. The police and Local Authority A became involved. The mother and children left for a refuge and the father has not seen the children since.