Grandmother sentenced to 3 months

"A grandmother was hauled out of a comedy show and arrested on the orders of a family court judge – simply for hugging her granddaughter. Kathleen Danby, 72, was sentenced in her absence to three months in jail by the secretive Court of Protection in April after a judge heard she embraced the vulnerable girl, 19, against the wishes of social services."

"In an extraordinary move, she was arrested on Sunday night as she watched the comedian Ken Dodd at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.  Last night the grandmother was being held in custody, police confirmed. She is expected to be taken to court this morning. The girl’s father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has condemned her arrest as ‘absolutely ridiculous’."

"‘She’s told me she’s going to fight this but I’m concerned for her in custody. 'I don’t know what’s going to happen. She’s got a liver disease so she’s constantly on medication and she was totally knackered. I’m very angry.’"

"According to Mrs Danby, the girl was moved into care in Derbyshire in 2007 when she was 11, a year after being taken away from her father in Orkney by social services, on what she called a ‘spurious excuse’. He was banned from seeing her after he was convicted of ill-treatment for restraining her from running into a busy road while she was having a temper tantrum, she said.
She revealed that her son had been jailed twice for trying to contact his daughter – once for waving at her taxi as she travelled to school."

"He told the Mail that he faces 18 months in prison if he leaves Orkney as there is currently a warrant out for his arrest for speaking to his daughter following a court hearing in Derby last year. And under a draconian judgment kept secret from the public, Mrs Danby was banned from making contact with the girl, who has learning difficulties, apart from a monthly telephone call monitored by social services."

"In February she was accused of disobeying court orders after social workers discovered that she had met her granddaughter at a model railway exhibition, and was caught on CCTV four days later giving her a hug outside a pub. Speaking to the Mail from her home in Kirkwall, Orkney, in June, she insisted that her granddaughter wanted to have a relationship with both her and her son, and revealed that she had run away from care more than 170 times."

"Eamonn Kelly, from False Allegations Action Scotland, described Mrs Danby’s case as ‘one of the most disturbing’ he had encountered."

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Update: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/judge-frees-granddaughter-hug-oap-132319490.html

See also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11323130/The-most-sinister-court-in-Britain-strikes-yet-again.html