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A mother has been reunited with her young daughter eight months after she went missing in Egypt, it has emerged.
Leila Sabra, 32, from Whitefield, Lancashire, received a phone call from the British Embassy this week to say two-year-old A'ishah had been found. The child was abducted by her father, Saber Mesbah Sabra, last year.
Ms Sabra said: "It's a dream come true. From a constant nightmare that I thought would never end, I woke up to a phone call saying that the state police have found my baby.
"Finally, after so long, I had my baby back in my arms.
"It was surreal, I had waited minute by minute, hour after hour, and month after month whilst I mourned the loss of my baby - yet here she was, cradled against my chest."
Ms Sabra met her former husband when she went to the country on holiday five years ago.
They married months later and the family lived in Egypt, where Mr Sabra ran a quad biking company.
But the relationship broke down and she returned to England, agreeing that their daughter would visit once a year.
On May 16 last year, during one of these supervised visits in the east coast city of Hurghada, the little girl was bundled into the back of a car and driven away.
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Ms Sabra has spent the last eight months scouring the country for her daughter.
