‘Please don’t take my son!’
Courtney Slater, 21, Manchester
Bouncing my 2-year-old son on my knee, he pointed at the TV. ‘Mummy, look!’ Lekai giggled at PAW Patrol on the screen.
It was June 2021 and life was good.
I loved being a mummy, and things were going well with my boyfriend of six months, Brandon, 21.
That night, the three of us were going out for a meal.
At 5.30pm, I strapped Lekai into his car seat in my black Renault Clio and drove to Brandon’s.
As we pulled up, he was walking down the driveway past his brother Matt, 24,
