A JUDGE ordered the immediate return of a newborn tot — hours after he was unlawfully snatched by social workers yesterday. Mr Justice Munby said officials had no right to take the two-hour-old baby boy without a court order. And he told the High Court in London that no tot can be removed simply “as the result of a decision taken by officials in some room”. The 18-year-old mum, an ex-drug user with mental health problems who had just left local authority care, is set to sue social services. The baby was born at 2am yesterday in Nottinghamshire and taken away at 4am. At midday the judge ordered social workers to “reunite mother and baby forthwith”. The tot was back with the mum 45 minutes later.
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