Police to question runaway mother
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Your support makes all the difference.Tracey Whalin, who fled to Florida with a 14-year-old schoolboy, is to be questioned about allegations of abduction today. A Nottinghamshire police spokesman said the 33-year-old mother of three, who was flown back to Britain yesterday, has been resting for most of the day at Beeston police station Nottingham where she is said to be "very tired".
Mrs Whalin, of Nottingham, arrived at the station yesterday after being was released into the custody of British police officers by police in Miami and flown to Heathrow airport.
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