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(3) In March 1998, within a month of their removal, their father died of an overdose.
(4) Their mother was later convicted of wilful neglect and had limited contact over the next two or three years.
(5) Care orders were promptly made in October 1998 and the boys were placed with a paternal aunt, Aunt D, a single woman with six children of her own and little support. The placement broke down after a year and the children re-entered foster care.
(6) Although it was by now clear that at the time there was no available placement within the birth family, another year passed before LCC applied to free the boys for adoption in November 2000. Freeing orders were made in March 2001, ending the boys' membership of their birth family. By this time A was 5� and S 3�.
(7) All contact with the boys' extensive birth family then stopped. The mother did not take up farewell contact. The boys had farewell contact with their older half-brother in May 2002 and their older brother in August 2002.
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