A British mother who snatched her twins from under the noses of social workers and who may have taken them to Ireland was told she had only a slim chance of keeping the children, her elder daughter said today.
Tamara Dyson, 37, seized her four-year-old twins Billy Blu and Vixen Rae Francis last Thursday from a contact centre run by social workers.
Social workers were in the centre’s garden but were distracted, apparently when they went to make a cup of coffee, giving Ms Dyson the chance to take the twins.
Ms Dyson has left her two elder daughters from a different relationship, 16-year-old Olympia and Cydney, 14, at her home in Skegness, Lincolnshire.
Today Olympia, an X Factor hopeful who is completing her GCSEs, said she wanted her mother to come home.
She said a hearing was scheduled to take place tomorrow to see whether her mother could care for the children on a permanent basis.
Olympia said: “The social workers were saying there was a slim chance of getting the twins back and she felt desperate because there was nothing she had done to make that happen.
“She’s just desperate for us all to be a family again. I am really worried. They are making out she would harm them, that she is a chronic alcoholic and that she has a problem but this wouldn’t have been going on for two years if that was the case.
“Mum is fantastic, she’s amazing. She is so much more like my best friend, if I am honest. I would tell her anything. I am just shocked, really shocked.”
Following her mother’s disappearance, Olympia was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to kidnap the children.
She was held in a cell for seven hours after having her DNA and fingerprints taken.
She added: “The judge still thinks I have something to do with it but I would be the first person to come forward if I had heard something.”
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