The Daily Telegraph - Saturday

Tate denied permission to visit sick mother in Britain over Christmas

- By Our Foreign Staff

A ROMANIAN court has rejected Andrew Tate’s request to temporaril­y leave the country while awaiting trial on human traffickin­g charges to visit his mother in London.

Tate was indicted in June along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian female suspects for human traffickin­g, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women – allegation­s they have denied.

Under Romanian law, the case is now with the Bucharest court’s preliminar­y chamber, which needs to inspect the files to ensure legality. The trial will not start until that process is completed.

“The Romanian court of appeals has denied Andrew and Tristan Tate’s request to travel to the UK over the holidays, which would also include a visit to their mother, who recently suffered a heart attack,” their representa­tives said in a statement. The court said their request was “unfounded”.

The Tate brothers had requested they be allowed to leave to visit their mother after she suffered a heart attack.

“The Romanian state decided she must be alone at Christmas, if she is alive,” Tate wrote on Twitter.

The brothers, who have dual US and British citizenshi­p, were held in police custody pending a criminal investigat­ion from late December 2022 until April, to prevent them from fleeing the country or tampering with evidence.

They were then placed under house arrest until August. Since then, they have been under judicial control, a lighter preventati­ve measure.

Tate, a self-described misogynist, has gained millions of fans by promoting an ultra-masculine lifestyle that critics say denigrates women.

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Andrew Tate’s appeal was said to be ‘unfounded’

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