The mother of an eight-year-old boy who is thought to have been abducted by his father earlier this month has pleaded for him to be returned home.

Angelo Jurado-Marmolejo has not been seen since his father Rafael Jurado-Cabello failed to return him to his mother’s home in Bristol following a pre-arranged visit on 2 March.

Mr Jurado-Cabello, a Spanish national, was supposed to return him after football practice but is “now in breach of a court order and is wanted on suspicion of child abduction”, Avon and Somerset Police said.

Speaking after a hearing at Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre on Thursday, Karol Marmolejo wept as she pleaded with her former partner to return their son.

“We miss Angelo, he is definitely our life. There is not anything here without him. Everything is around Angelo,” she said.

“I don’t know what’s happened with him. Please, please, give us the most information you can give us for us to bring Angelo back.

“It’s been three weeks and we don’t know anything about him. It is believed that he has moved from Bristol but we don’t know anything else.”

Ms Marmolejo, also a Spanish national, said Angelo had been looking forward to his ninth birthday on 7 April, and they were planning a party with friends at AirHop trampoline park in Bristol.

The court heard that Angelo and his parents moved to Bristol from Spain in 2012.

Family court proceedings began after Mr Jurado-Cabello kept Angelo in Spain following a half-term break in February 2017.

He was returned home the following month and in August that year, a court found Mr Jurado-Cabello was “obsessed with negative feelings” towards his former partner.

Proceedings concluded in February, when the court ordered that Angelo should continue to live with his mother and spend time with his father.

To reduce the risk of Mr Jurado-Cabello abducting Angelo a second time, he was required to surrender his passport and Spanish identity card at the beginning of each visit.

It is believed he provided fake documents when he collected Angelo on 2 March.

He has been ordered to return the boy to his mother, but has not done so and is thought to have left the country.

Judge Nicholas Marston told the public hearing on Tuesday: “This is a very serious matter. The oxygen of publicity is an advantage, not a disadvantage in this case.

“I want to stress that although the parents are not from this country, Angelo is a little Bristolian boy.”

Judge Marston said Mr Jurado-Cabello had lost two family cases where he had tried to persuade the court that Angelo should live with him.

He described the effect of the boy’s disappearance on Ms Marmolejo as “utterly devastating” and said it would be “traumatic” for Angelo.

Mr Jurado-Cabello’s family are from Cordoba in Spain, while his girlfriend has links to Mexico.

He is described as white, between 5ft 6in and 5ft 7in, and with black hair.

Angelo was last seen wearing a zip-up jacket, red trainers and carrying a blue rucksack.

Detective Inspector Matt Lloyd, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: “We are desperate to get him back to Bristol where he belongs.

“We are relentless in trying to track him down.”

:: Anyone who sees father or son is asked to call 999 giving the reference 5219046310.

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