Sorry to leave you – we had no choice

Missing mother’s emotional letter to family

A MOTHER who has been missing with her son for six months has written a desperate letter to her family explaining why she went on the run.

Ellie Yarrow-Sanders said she was left with little choice and claimed it was for the good of three-year- old Olly Sheridan.

The letter emerged as the boy’s father Patrick Sheridan pleaded with his ex-partner to return so their son could enjoy a ‘normal childhood’.

Miss Yarrow-Sanders vanished last July shortly before she was set to give evidence at a ‘critical’ hearing involving Mr Sheridan at the family court. She wrote in her letter to mother Donna and sister Maddie: ‘This is the only thing I could do for Olly to have any semblance of a childhood with his mum.

‘I’m really sorry to leave you all but we have no other choice and I promise we will be OK. I will never let any harm come to Olly. I love my son endlessly.’

Last month, a family court judge issued a public appeal after

Dad: Patrick Sheridan and Olly attempts by police, court officers at around the time they vanished and lawyers to trace the pair came and it is thought they might also to nothing. Mr Justice Williams have stayed in the area. lifted restrictions on media reporting Mr Sheridan, 45, renewed his in the hope the publicity would own appeal for information this help find Olly, who has been made week, begging Miss Yarrow-Sanders a ward of court. to allow their son a ‘normal

Miss Yarrow-Sanders, 26, from childhood’. Basildon, Essex, has not used her ‘I hope that Ellie sees sense and bank accounts or mobile since comes forward so that this can be disappearing with the boy. Her sorted out and Olly can have a mother travelled to Huddersfield normal childhood, not living on

Vanished: Ellie Yarrow-Sanders with her son the run,’ he said. ‘ My boy needs her mother Donna, 47, and first both of his parents in his life and met Mr Sheridan at a pub when not to live a life undercover, hidden she was 18. away from his family and the Sources close to the family said rest of the world.’ they had been ‘torn apart’ by

He said Christmas was ‘unbearable’, the disappearance but added adding: ‘Please, if any members that Miss Yarrow-Sanders was ‘a of the public who might have mum who’s chosen to put her son seen Olly or have any information, before anyone else’. call the police.’ Essex Police have also appealed

A friend of the family said Miss for anyone with information to get Yarrow-Sanders ran a cafe with in touch.