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The Molly Campbell abduction scandal: from custody battle to international drama by Amelia Gentleman

When the 12-year-old was taken from Scotland to Pakistan by her father in 2006, she became front-page news, held up as the symbol of a cultural clash between a white mother and her Muslim ex-husband. As a new play charts the truth behind the headlines, Molly and her mother speak outThis is the story of a painful divorce, one which may be dimly familiar, because for a few weeks in 2006 the unhappy twists of this famil…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PM on April 27, 2014

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