Rejected boy flies back
(X.Z..P.A.neuter —Copyright) i LONDON, Dec. 10. Lee Borett. the 12-year-old schoolboy who was disowned by his 'mother and stepfather in Israel, is coming back to England today to a warm welcome from his uncle. Little Lee made headlines; all over the world when he] flew from London to Tel; Aviv on Sunday with a one-! way ticket to begin a new! life with his mother and stepfather, only to be told on; arrival that he was not wanted. After his stepfather, Mr: David Bromind, had given the; boy at Lod Airport, Tel Aviv. I a return ticket, and had told officials, “He is nothing to do I with me, and I don’t want: him,” Lee wandered around the airport until he was! found at midnight by an air| hostess who took him home.; In Britain, the boy’s uncle. Mr Christopher McArdle, a, company director, said: “1 am! pretty disgusted with what , happened to Lee. He flew hundreds of miles to be with his mother and stepfather, and was totally rejected.” Mr McArdle said that he would be at the airport today to meet Lee and take him to his home, to live there with his own daughters, aged five and two.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34022, 11 December 1975, Page 17
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