Boy had sought court order to force his return, after parents took him on trip to Ghana and returned without him
A British teenager whose parents left him in Ghana, fearing he was at risk from “gang culture” in the UK, should stay there until at least the end of his GCSE exams, a judge sitting at London’s high court has ruled.
The boy took legal action against his parents, seeking a court order that would force his return, after they enrolled him in a boarding school and arranged for him to live with extended family in Ghana without telling him.
But after the boy’s parents told the court they did not want him to return until after his exams and did not believe they could keep him safe in England, his legal efforts to force an immediate return failed.
His parents were born in Ghana but he was born in England and “regards himself as an outsider” in the West African country, a social worker told the wardship proceedings.
