'Desperate' mother had little chance of keeping children

A MOTHER who snatched her twins from under the noses of social workers had been told she had only a slim chance of keeping the children.

Tamara Dyson, 37, seized her four-year-old twins Billy Blu and Vixen Rae Francis last Thursday from a contact centre run by social workers. They were in the centre's garden but distracted, apparently, when they went to make a cup of coffee, giving Ms Dyson a chance to take the twins.

Ms Dyson had left her two elder daughters from a different relationship, 16-year-old Olym-pia and Cydney, 14, at her home in Skegness, Lincolnshire.

Olympia, an X Factor hopeful who is completing her GCSEs, said she wanted her mother to come home. She said a hearing was scheduled tomorrow to see whether her mother could care for the children permanently.

She added: "The social workers were saying there was a slim chance of her getting the twins back. She felt desperate because there was nothing she had done to make that happen."