Missing schoolgirl: I was not abducted
Last updated at 22:06pm on 1st September 2006
Schoolgirl Molly Campbell has dismissed claims she had been abducted from her British home so she could be forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistan as untrue.
Relaxed and beaming with happiness, the 12-year-old squeezed the hand of her father Sajad Ahmed Rana sitting beside her and insisted: "It was my own choice to leave, I wanted to be with my family in Pakistan and I want to stay in Pakistan.
"I wasn't abducted, I asked my sister to help me and I would have runaway if they hadn't. It was my decision...there is no arranged marriage, there never has been.
"My name isn't Molly, its Misbah," she said, referring to her Pakistani name. But the anguished international tug-of-love over her custody went-on last night despite her pleas.
Within hours of the dramatic press conference in Lahore, her mother's solicitors in Scotland insisted legal action was still underway to bring her back to Britain.
This brought an immediate counter threat of legal action from Molly's father, Sajad Ahmed Rana, who said he was preparing to go before a Pakistani court to ask for her legal guardianship.
The extraordinary development came a week after Molly vanished from school in Stornoway on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides amid tearful claims from her 38-year-old mother that she had been abducted and it was feared she would be made to undergo an arranged marriage.
Molly said: "I know my mum misses me and I love her but I missed my brothers and sisters. I want to live with my dad and still see my mum. It has been very hard."
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