A group of fathers calling themselves ‘victims of the family court system’ have completed a week-long pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral to hand their petition to the Dean.

Thomas Judge, who’s from York, and Matt Thompson, who’s from Brentwood, are calling for changes to the family courts to make sure that parents with contact orders can see their children.

For Matt Thompson, walking up to 20 miles a day wasn’t easy, but it was worth it for this cause:

“On Wednesday, I was walking on my own. I’d been going for so long, my legs felt numb, but that was fine, because it reminded me of how I had felt during the court process myself.

“I really felt like my children were…