[2025] EWHC 2961 (Fam)

The father adds [470/510] that mother “…would threaten on at least 20 to 30 other occasions to take [the child] from me or control my access to her”. For the avoidance of any doubt, I have not been sent any further recordings, other than the three separately referenced in the judgment and have not heard the comment by mother repeated. However, it is correct that the mother accepts [198/510; 290/510] that she would refer to keeping the child, albeit in the context, on her case, of responding to like comments by the father.

Whilst such comments are, of course, concerning, it seems to me that I should actually focus on actions rather than words. The mother has not, in fact, impeded the child’s movements between England and Japan, notwithstanding the breaking down of the parental relationship from 2024 into 2025. Indeed, the child’s arrival in England on 28/4/25 is to be seen against the backdrop of the ongoing problems between the parents.