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| Mother of missing Waltham Forest family arrested on UK return | Mother of missing Waltham Forest family arrested on UK return |
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| A woman who went missing with her four children amid fears they were heading from London to Syria has been arrested on her return to the UK. | |
| The Met Police said the woman, 33, had been arrested at Luton Airport on suspicion of child abduction. | The Met Police said the woman, 33, had been arrested at Luton Airport on suspicion of child abduction. |
| Police made an appeal for information after the family went missing from Waltham Forest last week. They were detained in Turkey on Tuesday. | Police made an appeal for information after the family went missing from Waltham Forest last week. They were detained in Turkey on Tuesday. |
| The woman's four children are in police protection, police said. | The woman's four children are in police protection, police said. |
| The woman and her children - aged from four to 12 - were last seen on 25 August boarding a flight to Amsterdam from London City Airport, the Met Police said. | |
| Detectives later found the family had been pictured on security cameras at the airport. | |
| The force said that "due to concerns she [the woman] was intending to travel to Syria with her children" an appeal for information was launched. | |
| Officers then received official confirmation on Tuesday that the family had been detained in Turkey by Turkish authorities. |