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Taken: Tracey’s story

Her kids aren’t at home, then her husband sends a text: ‘Gary and Lisa say goodbye forever.’ Ten years later Tracey recognises her son on Facebook.

Tracey knew something was wrong the moment she got to the house. The place was empty, the children were gone and so was her husband Taz. Their marriage had broken down and they were going through divorce proceedings. Then she got a text message from him: ‘Gary and Lisa say goodbye forever.’ They’d been taken to Pakistan. Tracey enlisted the police, the Foreign Office and Interpol but in the absence of an agreement between Pakistan and England about parental child abduction cases — they were powerless. Tracey was advised not to travel to Pakistan and she had no idea where to start looking for them anyway. Dr Sian Williams hears what Tracey went through in the decade it took for her to find her children, and the complicated aftermath.

In the next episode Sian talks to Lisa, Tracey’s daughter, to hear the story from her point of view.

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28 minutes

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Sun 6 Aug 2023 23:00

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  • Wed 5 Apr 2023 09:00
  • Sun 6 Aug 2023 23:00

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