Father is being hunted by police after abducting his three young sons aged 3, 5 and 6 from their foster mother by attacking her with a knife as they played in the garden
- Imran Safi arrived at his children’s foster home of Coulsdon, south London
- Assaulted foster mother with a knife and abducted Bilal, 6, Ebrar, 5, and Yaseen,3
- Believed the children were soon to be adopted and father ‘may have found out’
- Police now appealing for information a week on from the incident
Police have appealed for help tracing a father who abducted his three children from their foster carer at knifepoint.
Imran Safi turned unannounced at his sons’ foster home in Coulsdon, south London, last Thursday where he assaulted their foster mother and threatened her with a knife.
He then took boys Bilal, 6, Ebrar, 5, and Yaseen, 3, in a Nissan Qashqai car and ‘disappeared’.
Police have appealed for help tracing a father who abducted his three children from their foster carer at knifepoint. Pictured: Bilal, 6, Ebrar, 5, and Yaseen, 3
The three children had been in social care ‘for some time’ according to police, and the relationship between Safi, an Afghan national, and their mother is not known.
Scotland Yard Commander Jon Savell confirmed that the boys were due to be adopted in the near future, and it is fear that the 26-year-old father may have discovered social service’s plans.
While most cases of parental abduction are usually quick to be resolved, Met Police have been forced to appeal to the public in what has been called a ‘well pre-planned incident’.
Imran Safi turned unannounced at his sons’ foster home in Coulsdon, south London , last Thursday where he assaulted their foster mother and threatened her with a knife