Prime Minister’s daughter- in-law seeks asylum in US

Yvonne Hinds

Elizabeth Hinds, the daughter-in-law of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, has requested asylum in the United States and is seeking to regain her three-year-old son after a court granted custody to his father—a custody battle that prompted the PM’s wife last evening to threaten legal action against any attempt to distort the case or discredit her family.

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania last Thursday granted Elizabeth Hinds a temporary emergency stay of the order that awarded physical custody of the child to her husband, Samuel Nikolai Hinds. A judge had awarded interim custody to him, based on an application by him and former first lady Yvonne Hinds,