Schoolgirls snatched from their parents by social services after moaning to teachers about being banned from watching TV

When Victoria, 38, and Alan Seymour, 58, moved from Australia back to Britain to care for Alan's elderly mother, who had been left unable to look after herself following the death of her husband, the last thing the couple expected to was to have their two daughters, Georgia, then 11, and Grace, then 9, forcibly snatched by social workers. The girls had complained to teachers about being grounded and banned from watching TV following their bad behaviour at home, which set a terrifying process in motion for the Seymour family.
Pictures clockwise Georgia, now 13, with Alan, Victoria and Grace, now 11; Grace, then 9, and Georgia, then 11, in their school uniforms; Victoria with Georgia and Grace at their home in Canberra, Australia.