Cork father fights to get son back from Zambia

Five months ago, a woman who had lost custody of her child and didn’t have a passport for him managed to take him to her home country of Zambia. She hasn’t come back since.

As well as abducting seven-year-old Ethan from his dad, Richard Quarry, from Kinsale, Co Cork, who had full custody of the boy, Elizabeth Daka also took her son from another relationship, two-year-old Troy, to the impoverished township in Lusaka.

Both boys’ fathers have been told there is little Irish authorities can do as Zambia has not signed up to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, which would allow the Irish fathers to pursue the boys’ mother through the Irish courts