This is the British mother facing three years in a Dubai prison in after she was accused of abducting her own three-year-old son in an acrimonious custody battle with her ex-husband.
Afsana Lachaux, 46, from London, is facing charges of kidnapping her toddler Louis after officials in the United Arab Emirates said she had failed to turn up to a pre-arranged access visit.
However, the mother-of-three said she had not attended because her former husband Bruno Lachaux, who was awarded custody of the boy by a Dubai court, had threatened to kill her on their last meeting.
Mrs Lachaux will go on trial in Dubai next week and if she is found guilty at the hearing on February 11, she could be put in prison for three years.
She then risks being deported back to the UK, leaving her youngest child behind.
Mrs Lachaux was a senior civil servant in east London before moving to the UAE in 2010, shortly after she married her former partner, a 38-year-old aviation engineer.
Their son, who has dual French and British nationality, was born in Dubai.
She claims her French ex-husband snatched little Louis from his pushchair after he tracked her down to a shopping centre near her home.
She has not seen the boy since.
'The idea I may never be able to hold him again is unbearable,' she told the Sunday Mirror.
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