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Beth Alexander uncertain when she will next see sons

February 5, 2014 15:50
Beth Alexander with her sons, Benjamin and Samuel

ByCharlotte Oliver, Charlotte Oliver

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A British mother who last month lost her battle for custody of her four-year-old twin sons does not know when she will next see her children, after the family centre that arranges her visits said it will no longer do so.

In January, Beth Alexander was denied the right to take her case to the Austrian Supreme Court, having previously lost a hearing and an appeal over the boys, who live in Vienna with her Austrian ex-husband Michael Schlesinger.

She has had limited visiting rights for the last two-and-a-half years, which are overseen by the centre as her ex-husband refuses to make direct contact.

But after picking up her sons on Tuesday, Ms Alexander was told she and her ex-husband could no longer use them as a go-between.