Snatched girl’s father to stay behind bars

Tamer Salama, 35, has already been in custody for 21 months but was due to be released from prison this week before a further six-month term was imposed at London’s High Court.

Naomi Button, mother of six-year-old Elsa, began proceedings after the child was moved to her paternal grandmother’s care during a family holiday in Egypt in December 2011.

Ms Button, a 39-year-old leadership consultant from Leeds, has been struggling to recover her daughter ever since, said Mr Justice Holman.

Jailing Salama, a teacher from Southampton, for contempt, the judge said he had admitted refusing to obey court orders imposed in July.

He described Salama’s evidence as “shifty, evasive and plainly dishonest”.