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Diane Sutton and the hanging judge: based on an actual story from British family-court.

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Diane Sutton is a former model and beauty queen. Growing up in an idyllic Surrey lifestyle as the only child of two successful loving parents; her father a former race car driver, now owner of a Mercedes dealership, her mother a former A-list catwalk model.
Diane is 18 when her parents both die in a vehicular accident, leaving her as a wealthy heiress. She is mature beyond her years, raised in a secure family unit by caring loving parents which helps successfully transition into her new life with new responsibilities.
Three years later, at 21, she meets Dan Cotes, a divorce lawyer, 14 years her senior. They fall in love at first sight and a month later Dan moves into her home on a rent free basis. Three months after that they marry and their son Dylan arrives ten months later. For four years Diane raises Dylan in what appears to be the ideal of a happy loving home. She loves Dylan unreservedly and Dylan loves his Mother and is thriving on the opportunities this full time attention represents to the growing child. The neural pathways that will form the core of his adult personality are developing beautifully. And then one day, fathers-day 2013, their lives change irrevocably. Out of the blue Dan declares ambitions beyond the vows he made to wed Diane and have a child with her. The other woman destined to become his second wife is a fit young junior lawyer in his firm. Their sexually motivated plans together exclude Diane, requiring her removal. Dan retains an aggressive family-solicitor who uses arcane family-law legislation to leverage their son Byron to maximize winning financial benefit from the divorce. He creates the dispute that places the decision in family-court. A judge, who is also a barrister and co-worker of Dan’s in family-court, will decide Byron’s future. Dan’s monetary goals are placed above Dylan’s best interests, his right to see both parents. To not be punished for the remunerative advantage benefiting family law members. How and why events unfold as they do is an all too common reflection on family-court proceedings wherever acrimony drives separation and monetary interests are placed above those of the child.
How will Diane get her child back?
Will Byron understand why he cannot see his mother?
Will Dan Cotes, his lawyer and his friendly judge get away with their legal deceit? In this roll of the family court dice, who will get what.

102 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2019

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Andrew Brel

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Andrew Brel was born in 1960 in Johannesburg to Greek parents, growing up in South Africa during the apartheid years before emigrating to England in 1984. After 29 years in London working as a musician, producer and author, Andrew moved to the start of a fourth nationality in California.

He is a self-taught author; asked to recite his first short story at age 6, his ability to tell edge-of-seat stories on the fly without 'uhm' pauses was first recognized in English class at Bryanston Primary. A prodigious reader from an early age, a career in music delayed his first publication until 2011. 'The Emergency Bouzouki Player' is a non-fiction first person account of the South African War of Apartheid which has become the best-selling book on the Angolan Border War on Kindle.

Brel's second book is 'One Day in Paris'. Recalling one year in the life of Dan Blake, a former soldier incentivized to mastermind an attack on Paris in a Political Thriller which presciently foretold the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris.

In 2019, Brel's third published effort is 'Who Lies Wins' by Andrea Lee. A story based on actual judgments in Britain's family-court intended to effect meaningful change in Britain's family law legislation still harming children of broken families for the benefit of members.

He has several short stories published including:
...."Nolan Cash. Bowling Green. The authorized biography of Nolan Cash" and the story of the 1957 terror attack in Bowling Green.
....Krishna Vardu Ghan and the Keys for Conduct. A fun self-help guidance book.
...."Diane Sutton and the hanging judge" is based on real events in the world of British family-law.
...."Blake Sherman's AR-15" is about gun law in the USA. An American coming of age love story.

Brel is a former medical school drop out and Computer Science graduate. Brel has historically promoted activism in areas including;
Anti-war and the ‘War-economy’. Drug law reform. Education, promoting the significance of equal education opportunities for all. Universal health care, universal income, and ending commercially motivated racial inequality. He has agitated towards measured accountability replacing qualified immunity for crimes of idiocy arising from conservative obeisance to a religious racist right education. PTSD, homelessness; cause, effect and remedy. Liberalism and Conservatism, in relative merits and consequences.
Military history interest include; the Greek war of independence, The American Civil war, The Two Great Wars, The Iran Iraq war and the Angolan Border War. He is outspoken critic of Kill-for-Fun hunters for many years, having coined the phrase Kill-for-Fun Hunters to replace Trophy Hunters with his Blog of that title in 2010.

He has previously;
performed thousands of gigs as a professional guitar-playing musician, emigrated penniless from Johannesburg to London, owned recording studios and a record label, made and lost money in share-trading, developed property, organized meaningful fund-raising life-saving music concerts, lived on very little, enjoyed healthy excesses a lot. Written songs and performed with extraordinary world class musicians, discovering loyal friendship as life's great gift and betrayal its fiercest teacher. Believes Britain's family-law system will one day be recognized as an offender of children's rights not dissimilar to former establishment stalwart, Sir Jimmy Savile. Believes religion recognized as a hate crime represents the best hope of attracting change to endemic systemic racist legislature.

Andrew has worked in music composition and production since first being paid to perform at age 15. Beginning in 2001 Andrew has written and produced 11 albums of healing 'meditation and wellness' music available worldwide on all streamed music operators, like Spotify, Apple, Amazon and YouTube.

My new book The Three Rs, is imminent. To be released 'When its ready.'

Contact by Facebook Private message.... Andrew Brel

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