Abducted Atiya, 6, on her way home
Date published: 28 December 2012
Dad said he was taking toddler to Southport, instead they went to Lahore A six–year–old girl is on her way home more than three years after she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan, sources said today.
Atiya Anjum–Wilkinson, from Ashton, vanished in November 2009, after going to stay with her father, Razwan Ali Anjum. The former insurance salesman said he was taking her to Southport but instead he took her to Lahore, Pakistan — and told her mother Gemma Wilkinson that she would never see Atiya again.
But sources have revealed that Atiya was found in Pakistan and is due to arrive at Manchester Airport today.
Only last month, Gemma (32) from Ashton, launched a fresh appeal for information.
Anjum is currently serving a fourth consecutive prison sentence in the UK for refusing to reveal his daughter’s whereabouts, despite a court order.
Judges have now jailed him for two years and two terms of a year, each following the one before, as he has maintained he doesn’t know his daughter’s exact location
Anjum, who represented himself at the latest court hearing, said Atiya was in Pakistan or Iran but didn;t know exactly where.
Mr Justice Moor said: "It is absolutely absurd for him to suggest he does not know the whereabouts of his daughter and he cannot contact her. I am certain he is lying."
Another judge has previously said the case was as bad a case of child abduction as he had encountered.
Atiya is believed to have been found after police published a computer–generated image of her likely current appearance.
