A teenage boy, Dylan, was separated from his mother Erin for six years after the family court removed him and his sister based on the advice of an unregulated psychologist , Melanie Gill. Gill's discredited 'parental alienation' concept led to the children being taken from their mother and placed with their father. Dylan, now 16, managed to reunite with his mother after sneaking out of his father's home, leading to a tense reunion with police intervention.

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According to the Daily Mail, Erin, a law student, is still adjusting to living with her teenage son, while Dylan is dealing with the trauma of his separation and the anger towadrs the family court system. The family court's decision to remove the children from their mother was based on the advice of Melanie Gill, whose 'parental alienation' concept has been discredited as 'harmful pseudoscience'.

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The last time Erin saw her son was on December 18, 2019, when she drove him to a friend's house ahead of a court hearing. She had no idea it would be the last time she would see him for six years. The family court's decision to remove the children from their mother was based on the advice of Melanie Gill, whose 'parental alienation' concept has been discredited as 'harmful pseudoscience'.

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Erin was finally vindicated at a High Court hearing earlier this year when a damning judgment stated that Gill never should have been appointed to the case. This was the second time in seven months that Gill's evidence was thrown out amid what is becoming one of the biggest scandals to hit the family courts in recent years, wrecking untold lives.

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The Daily Mail first reported the story of Gill, 67, in October after Victims' Commissioner Claire Waxman demanded an urgent review of all the cases she'd been involved with. In January, the former president of the family division overturned Gill's evidence in Erin's case. Sir Andrew McFarlane went on to make a new order that Dylan could return to his mother's care.

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By then, however, Dylan had already taken matters into his own hands. Just before Christmas last year, the then 15-year-old packed a bag and left his father's home without so much as a goodbye – and went to find his mum. Dylan describes his family's devastation, caused by Gill's evidence against his mother – funded by his much wealthier father – and his enduring fury at a system he will never trust again.