Court ruling to remove children of UK-Australian couple living in woods divides Italy

Decision to remove children comes after parents and three daughters ate poisonous mushrooms and ended up in hospital

The decision by an Italian court to take three children being brought up in the woods away from their British-Australian parents has sparked a fierce debate in the country over alternative lifestyles.

Nathan Trevallion, a former chef from Bristol, and his wife, Catherine Birmingham, a former horse-riding teacher from Melbourne, bought a dilapidated property in a wooded area in Palmoli, in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, in 2021.