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"PLEASE help me get home, I don't want to stay in Fahad's house," says 10-year-old Adam Jones wearing a white thobe in a video posted on the social networking site Facebook.
His pleas and those of his mother's were this week dashed by a Qatari court. Heartbroken Rebecca Jones was told that she had no right to custody of her son.
The Saar mother-of-two was understandably distraught at the ruling following a long-running case which included Adam's moving call in the courtroom during an earlier hearing to return to Bahrain.
The schoolboy is a popular pupil at St Christopher's School and his classmates have been releasing yellow balloons and tying yellow ribbons to trees hoping he will be allowed to return home.
A Facebook group has amassed more than 10,000 members supporting Rebecca's seven-month legal battle to secure her son's custody. 'Shock, anger, outrage' at the court's decision was expressed by its members but they are vowing to continue supporting the 43-year-old Sheffield-born mother's campaign to bring Adam back to his home in Bahrain.
Adam was born at Bahrain's Awali Hospital on May 31 while Rebecca was still married to her late Qatari ex-husband and Adam's biological father, Jamal Al Madhaiki.
Every year, Adam celebrated his birthday with his mother, Rebecca's second husband and Adam's step-father Barrie and his four year old sister, Alex.
This year will be different as Adam remains closeted in his uncle's home in Qatar since October last year.
Rebecca was duped into signing Arabic legal documents concerning custody of the child during a visit to meet her ex-husband's relatives.
She was told she was signing papers relating to her son's inheritance. A court then granted custody to Adam's 77-year-old ailing grandmother residing in Qatar and later allowed Rebecca visitation rights twice a week.
Rebecca stayed in Qatar to continue her legal battle and suffered delays at the hands of the Qatari legal system and sponsorship blows. But she remained hopeful especially after Adam told the court he wanted to return to his family in Bahrain.
Rebecca has registered Adam's case in the UK under the Child Abduction Act and plans to travel to London to begin proceedings in the High Court. A GulfWeekly petition has already been handed in to 10 Downing Street calling for UK governmental support for Rebecca.
