A judge has branded a mother who went on the run with her three-year-old son after becoming embroiled in a bitter custody battle with the boy’s father “utterly irresponsible”.

A three-year-old boy who was missing with his mother in England for more than two weeks is now “safely back” in the care of his father.

The mother at the centre of a custody battle in England who is on the run with her three-year-old son has broken her silence, saying she left with him because she felt “trapped”.