A mother who acted on "maternal instinct" when she abducted four of her children has been cleared of breaching a court order to hand them back to her ex-husband.
Jennifer Jones, 46, faced contempt proceedings when she failed to send the children to Spain to live with their father, Spanish army officer Tomas Palacin Cambra.
But she argued her children's behaviour made it impossible to comply with the order and she did not do it "deliberately".
Lawyers had argued she should be penalised for failing to hand the children over in Cardiff in October, but Ms Jones resisted the contempt application at a hearing in London.
The judge was told that a Spanish court had ordered that following the break-up of her marriage the four children should stay with their father in Spain.
Tomas Palacin Cambra, 53, with the couple's children He heard that they had been visiting their mother when she allegedly breached the order.
The case hit the headlines last October when Ms Jones and the four children - Jessica, now 15, Tomas, now 13, Eva, now 10, and David, now eight - disappeared.
They were all found safe and well within days after a public appeal for help.
Government legal advisers were asked to consider whether contempt proceedings should be brought against Ms Jones, who argued that two of her children were traumatised and had run to the local police station.
"Those children didn't want to go back," Ms Jones told the court. "All I knew was that my daughter and my son had run away and escaped. I was very concerned about my children.
"I was so frightened because I knew I was supposed to be in Cardiff. I was going through a lot of emotions. As a mother you go by your instincts".
The maximum penalty Ms Jones faced for being in contempt was two years' imprisonment.
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