The Daily Telegraph sum it up nicely today...
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As Southampton General Hospital, the Crown Prosecution Service and Hampshire Constabulary — the triumvirate that conspired to have Ashya King’s parents arrested — went into reverse, their tardiness in admitting their mistake meant that the Spanish courts could not free Mrs and Mrs King before Tuesday.
So despite everyone from David Cameron to Ashya’s doctor agreeing that the Kings had committed no criminal offence, they were kept in jail for 48 hours, 300 miles away from their son.
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, admitted: “It has been a very unfortunate sequence of events and there have clearly been misunderstandings along the way.”
In court, CPS barrister Mehvish Chaudhry said the Kings could not be freed until the Spanish authorities heard the case in court. The Spanish authorities said the opposite: there was no need for a hearing as long as they had the necessary paperwork. Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs King were kept in jail.
Meanwhile, the CPS appeared to be in turmoil over how to extricate itself from the arrest warrant it had requested. //
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11071680/A-tale-of-cruel-bureaucracy-that-kept-parents-locked-away-from-ailing-son.html