00:00Mr. Justice Hayden said at a hearing on Monday that following his release Adeyei strolled about the London area and
00:10had a quote-unquote very nice dinner and quite a lot of drink at a local pub, before transferring thousands
00:19of pounds to others from a bank account.
00:21It is believed that he may have travelled to Spain the following day, all before prison staff contacted the Metropolitan
00:30Police in the afternoon of the 24th April.
00:33Mr. Justice Hayden added if the police had been contacted immediately, this could certainly perhaps have been prevented.
00:44Last June, the same judge ruled that Adeyei, a dual British-Nigerian national, abducted his son from his mother in
00:53France and took him to Nigeria via the UK.
00:58The judge said the son was born in France and had lived with the mother since birth, adding that the
01:04day of the abduction, in July 2024, was the first time that the son was staying overnight with his father.
01:12The five-year-old boy's mother has not seen her son since and has been trying to secure his return
01:18through the English courts, with Mr. Justice Hayden ruling in a legal first that the High Court had the power
01:25to order that Adeyei return the boy to his mother.
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