Five months on, the 18-year-old schoolgirl who married a cafe owner in Egypt is back in Britain

Just five months after schoolgirl Amy Robson ran away from home to marry an Egyptian internet cafe owner, she is back in Britain, staying with her grandparents.

After she wed Mohamed El Sayed, 30, in a traditional Egyptian celebration last December, the 18-year-old proclaimed her new home in Egypt was all she had ever dreamed of.

But last night, her father James, a 42-year-old electrician, said that as far as he and his wife were concerned, their daughter was now back home for good.

At the family home in Beaumont, Cumbria, he said: ‘It is fantastic but we don’t want to talk about it at this stage. As you can imagine, we have a lot to talk about and we are getting things sorted out between us. We just want her to get settled and we will take things from there. After all, she is an adult.’

However, her husband, whom she calls ‘Noby’, claims his teenage bride is merely on holiday in Britain for a few weeks to see her friends and family.

‘She told me she was going back to England for a while to see her friends and try to repair her relationship with her family,’ he said at the two-room home they shared with his family outside Cairo. ‘We speak every day and I am expecting her back in a couple of weeks.’

But Mr Robson and his wife Janet, 33, have arranged for Amy to stay with her grandparents in a remote village in Northumbria, in the hope that her husband will not be able to reach her.

Amy with Noby and his mother and sister at their wedding

When her father was told that Amy’s husband thought she was simply home for a holiday, he said: ‘They have their views

and as ever they will always be manipulated. That is why she is in this other place, some neutral ground, so no pressure can be put on her.

‘We’d hate her to be put under pressure and for her to decide to go back because it would be easier for her. That would be horrendous.’

He added: ‘She has been back a week but the last time she was only back a short time and then she was gone again.’

Amy’s relationship with Noby began last April, when she first ran away from home.

She fled to the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada to be with married boat hand Tamer Hossney, with whom she had become infatuated on a family holiday the year before. When she arrived, Hossney stood her up and, within days, she had fallen in love with Noby, who was running an internet cafe in the resort – despite neither speaking the other’s language.

Amy’s parents managed to lure her to the airport on the promise of a sightseeing trip and whisked her back home to Britain.

In October, though, she proved her determination to be with Noby when she used money she had saved from her £30-a-month allowance to buy a plane ticket back to Egypt. After she spent more than two months trying to find him, the pair were reunited and married in December in a colourful ceremony watched by Noby’s large extended family.

Amy called her new husband ‘the kindest, best man I’ve ever met’ and said that she never wanted to go back to Britain, adding: ‘I love it here, it’s so much more exciting than home.’

In February, she appeared to be enjoying her new life in Egypt, telling of her and Noby’s plans to hire out dancing horses to tourists at the Pyramids.

She said then: ‘I’m really happy. I’m getting a bit better at Arabic now, and Noby is getting a bit better at English, so it’s easier for us to talk.’

But last week, when a Mail on Sunday reporter visited her at her grandparents’ house and asked her if she intended to return to Egypt, she said: ‘I don’t know.’ Appearing extremely thin and smiling nervously, she gave the same answer when asked if she was planning to stay in Britain permanently.

Back at the family home in Beaumont, her father said: ‘We are going very slowly with this. Things are very delicate and we don’t want her to flee.’