JUSTICE FOR KEN - Comment: Sign our petition and help reunite family
Justice must work both ways
Next week a British man will stand trial in a foreign country accused of
conspiring to steal the passports of his two children.
Ken Spooner denies any wrongdoing, but like anyone else charged with such a serious offence he must face the justice of the court.
And it is right and proper that his trial should take place in a Zambian
Court – for it is that country in which the alleged offences took place.
Readers who have followed Ken's battle to get his children back home
may be surprised to hear us say that.
But we do not know whether or not he committed the offence he is accused of, and it is not up to us to predict the outcome of such a case.
What remains right is that matters of law should be carried out in the country where the actions happened.
And that is why the English High Court Order demanding the return of Devlan and Caelan Spooner to these shores should be applied.
The two boys are English. They were brought up for the whole of their young lives in Milton Keynes until their mother took them away from their homeland.
By her own admission Zanetta Nyendwa told Ken that she was only going on holiday.
The fact she hasn't returned is inarguable. This newspaper fails to see how such an action can be anything other than abduction.
And if our government continues to sit on its hands, it becomes legalised abduction with no-one prepared to stand up for a father who has seen his children taken away from him.
Devlan and Caelan need to return to their homeland, where a fair custody hearing can take place.
If that hearing decides to award custody to Zanetta then so be it. Ken has always said the boys need access to both parents.
So while the Zambian courts will rightly decide what is justice in terms of conspiracy charges, there still remains no justice for a father
whose children were taken from him.
In this, there remains no 'Justice for Ken'. That is why we continue to urge people to sign our petition asking the government to enforce the Order making the children wards of the High Court and bring them
home.
Thanks for your support.
To sign our online petition click here
For more information see the Justice for Ken section of this website or visit our Justice for Ken Facebook page
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