Sentencing due today on Algarve kidnap dad helped covertly by Portuguese authorities
Sentencing is due today on Filipe Silva – the Vilamoura businessman who kidnapped his British daughter ‘Ellie’ for seven months, with all kinds of collusion from the Portuguese authorities. As
Ellie kidnap trial delayed until May 21
It has taken years to come to trial and now even that is being delayed. The trial of Filipe Silva, the father who kidnapped his own daughter, Gisele “Ellie” Silva,
As Ellie kidnap drama comes to court, family reveals tug-of-love Algarve dad “hasn’t paid a penny” in child support since 2011
The tortuous kidnap drama gripped the nation after Vilamoura businessman Filipe Silva hid his eight-year-old daughter Ellie from her distraught mother for seven agonising months. That was three years ago
“Sinister plot” almost blocked Ellie’s reunion with mother
They literally “got out in the nick of time”. Anyone who has been following stories of tug-of-love nine-year-old Ellie Kelly Silva will have breathed huge sighs of relief on Monday
Ellie on the way!
“We’re out!”- the delighted two-word email arrived at the Resident’s offices mid-morning as little Ellie Kelly Silva finally embarked on the new life the Portuguese courts say she deserves. Photographed
Ellie ‘countdown’: police now given powers to ‘enforce’ court decision
In the final nail-biting days for a longed-for mother-daughter reunion, the Resident has heard that Faro court has given police the powers to enforce their custodial sentence, ensuring that little
Shock court decision opens new can of worms in Ellie kidnap case
A leaked court report has revealed extraordinary behind-the-scenes manoeuvres by an Albufeira magistrate in the high-profile abduction of nine-year-old British Ellie (Giselle Silva) by her Portuguese father, Filipe Silva. The
Ellie case: the drama continues
Just when calm appeared to have been restored in the Gannon family – finally united with nine-year-old daughter Ellie after the child’s natural father, a Portuguese entrepreneur from Vilamoura, kidnapped