When police knocked on her front door, Rachel* had no idea it would be the worst day of her life.
She and her son, Joshua*, were still in bed, but when she let the officers inside, leaving him to play on the floor behind a stairgate, she was told she was being recalled to prison – indefinitely – under a sentence she was handed for a street robbery 20 years ago. They said her son, from whom she had never spent a night apart, was being taken into care.
