Tug-of-love boy returns to US with mother

DYLAN BENWELL, the Cork-born youngster at the centre of an international tug-of-love, returned to the United States yesterday, more than three months after his grandparents were accused of kidnapping him.

The nine-year-old returned to the US yesterday afternoon after his mother Serena successfully argued he would be better off at the home she shares with her husband and four other children.

Mrs Benwell, who travelled to Ireland last week for a High Court hearing, accompanied her son back to America. The family had been living in Winthrop Harbour, near Chicago, but moved to Virginia some weeks after the alleged kidnapping.