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Tristan Cork

Friends of Bristol boy abducted four months ago hold City Hall vigil

Friends and family of a from football practice more than four months ago held a vigil in front of City Hall calling for the search for him to go worldwide.

Classmates of missing joined their parents and friends to - and the fact that 19 weeks after he was abducted, the authorities have still not been able to find him.

Dozens of families packed onto College Green to express support for Angelo’s mother Karol Marmolejo, who is pleading with the authorities in the UK and in Spain to do more to find her son.

(Missing Angelo)

A major investigation was launched back in early March when Angelo was taken from football training - he plays for the famous Bristol Central FC - and not returned to his family home in Whitehall, Bristol.

That was on the first Saturday in March, and since then there has been no sightings or information about Angelo or the whereabouts of his father, Rafael Jurado Cabello.

He has been reported missing by his family in Spain, and mum Karol said to escape legal rulings that Angelo has to be with his mother.

Angelo is a player for Bristol Central YFC (Bristol Post)

Avon and Somerset police are treating the case as one of abduction, and Angelo is the subject of a Family Court ruling, with a judge in Bristol declaring that he needed the help of the press and public to get Angelo back to the city where he grew up.

“It is a very, very serious matter,” said Judge Nicholas Marston, at a hearing the week after he was taken.

"It is one of those cases where the oxygen of publicity is an advantage, not a disadvantage.

(Missing Angelo)

"Angelo is a little Bristolian boy. He's spent virtually all of his life here in the care of his mother,” he added.

At College Green on Saturday, Karol said she wanted Angelo’s name and face to travel around the world - so that someone would recognise him and know where he was.

“I want to bring attention to Angelo’s case again, to keep the momentum going and to highlight the difficulties of collaboration on parental child abduction between European governments,” she said.

“I demand the authorities currently involved in Angelo’s case to take responsibilty and immediate action in his search.

(Missing Angelo)

“So far, I don’t feel that Avon and Somerset police, Bristol Family Court and CAFCASS have provided the adequate support, not have they fulfilled their duty of protecting Angelo’s best interests,” she said.

“Most importantly, I want to show Angelo, wherever he is, that I miss him, and that I am still looking for him.

“His family, his friends, his neighbourhood, his community, all of us want him to come home,” she added.

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