A single mum from Dundee has been given the green light to take her children out of war-torn Syria.
Jannah Reid was trapped in the country because her estranged husband refused to give her written permission to leave with their young sons.
The Courier revealed on Wednesday that the former Dundee High School pupil was granted a divorce and, after a second court battle in a week, she has secured exit visas for sons Ridwaan, 11, and Hashem, 10.
“I’m divorced and the children are free to leave Syria,” Jannah Reid, 51, said.
“It was a long, long, long day in court, and the two passport and immigration offices, but eventually, once again after the office had closed, we were given permission to leave the country and our passports stamped with exit visas.
“We only just made it because, if we had missed today, we would have had to wait until after Eid al Adha was finished, as the government is on holiday all this week.”
Jannah has been living with her two sons and a third child from her first marriage in the Syrian capital Damascus, the city which has become a battleground between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule.
She had converted to Islam years earlier while living in London, later joining fundamentalist sect the Salafee, and marrying a Syrian adherent she met just three hours before the ceremony.
He walked out on her and fled the country when the uprising against Assad began two years ago.
However, local laws prevented Jannah from leaving. Having had the necessary paperwork rubber stamped by the courts, she was planning to take her sons to Egypt.
“We intend to travel to a suburb of Cairo known as ‘6th October City’ on Sunday,” Jannah said.