FD25P00113 - [2025] EWHC 2670 (Fam)

The mother was clearly agitated and emotional about the proceedings. She feels very wronged. But she answered the questions directly, without attempts, in my view, at embellishment. I considered that she was doing her best to assist the court and her oral evidence was consistent with her written evidence, and her case.

The father was polite and calm in evidence. He accepted that he had not told the truth to the Moroccan court about his income stream and had repeated the lie the following day in a further court document. He explained that was because the mother had exaggerated his income. He accepted that he had lied to the mother about renewing her visa and, in fact, had not done so. He said that he reacted in that way because the mother had told him that he would not see A again.

I felt that the father was unable to provide a plausible explanation on a number of points