Valencia mum loses custody battle and children sent back to Mexico

Isabel Monrós is pictured here leaping onto bonnets of police cars in a desperate attempt to stop National Police officers from taking her children away, and has since been taken to hospital and treated for an anxiety attack.

She was married to the father of the children and living with him in Mexico when the children were born, but when she divorced her husband and a régime of visits and maintenance payments were decided by the court, Isabel realised there was no way she would be able to support herself and her children as a single mother in Mexico and decided to go and live with her parents in Alboraya (Valencia).

But taking the children out of Mexico without their father's agreement meant they were brought to Spain illegally.

Ever since Isabel returned home in 2010, a bitter court battle between the parents has been ongoing and a judge finally agreed that the children should go back to Mexico to live with their father.

Last week, a 300-strong crowd, including family members, friends and neighbours of the mother, created a human blockade to stop police from removing the kids by force to take them away.

However, a female judge decided yesterday to uphold the sentence, based upon the final verdict by a Mexican court stating that the children should remain in the North American country.

The judge had called for psychologists' reports on the children, who were interviewed by mental health experts and found to be 'completely sound'.

And the judge said there were no known reports to either Mexican or Spanish authorities of abuse or violence by the father towards either the mother or her children, as Isabel had always maintained.

She claimed the court psychologists did not detect any sign of abuse or aggression by the father towards the children when she interviewed the three youngsters.

The children have now been removed from the family home in Alboraya by the police and were due to fly back to Mexico today.