Gay dads fly their daughter home to Spain following mammoth legal battle in Thailand

A SPANISH father and his husband have flown their surrogate daughter back to Spain after a 15-month legal battle in Thailand.

Manuel Santos and American Gordon Lake, both 41, won custody of their baby Carmen after the mother refused to hand her over when she realised they were gay.

The mother is alleged to have called the pair human traffickers, leading the same-sex couple to file a defamation suit, the trial of which will begin in May.

They said on Facebook: “Today is a big day for our family, we just started the journey for our family to be together after 16 months. Tomorrow we will be with our son Alvaro in our home with our family.”

The family reside in Valencia, but will soon return to Thailand to participate in the upcoming trial.

They said: “It’s been a plot to destroy a LGBT family with lies and tricks. We will come back soon because we won’t stop until they pay for all they have done to us.”

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
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