Respected vet, 51, struck off after being jailed for abducting child
Respected vet, 51, is struck off after being jailed for abducting child at knifepoint falsely claiming she was Satanic abuse victim in bizarre kidnap plot
- Dr Anke Hill, 51, was previously jailed for 14 years in 2021 for abducting the child
- Her gang wrongly believed that the child’s father was a Satanist and paedophile
- Vet Hill has now been struck off by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
A respected vet has been struck off from the profession after she abducted a child at knifepoint who she claimed was a victim of ‘Satanic abuse’.
Dr Anke Hill, 51, who is understood to have worked in north Wales, wrongly believed the child’s father was a Satanist and paedophile and led a gang-of-six to ‘meticulously’ plot and carry out a kidnap.
After arriving home from school, the child was snatched by Dr Hill and another conspirator who threatened the child’s horrified foster mother with a knife.
Other members in the gang acted as getaway drivers and lookouts, however their plan was foiled four hours after the abduction when police stopped a car on the M1 in Northamptonshire.
Dr Hill, who last year was jailed for 14 years and five months, was said to have recruited a gang after contacting satanic ritual abuse campaigner Wilfred Wong, 56.
The vet – whose gang used codenames, false number plates and disguises – has now been banned from practising by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons [RCVS].
Wilfred Wong, pictured being taken from Caernarfon Crown Court, was a leading member of a gang involved in the abduction of a child in north Wales
She was condemned by the RCVS following the ‘violent’ kidnapping which caused ‘unspeakable misery’.
She believed the child, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was a victim of Satanic ritual abuse and after contacting Wong, the pair convinced four others to help.
Over several months they hatched a plan to ‘rescue’ the child in Anglesey, north Wales, and smuggle them out of the country.
An RCVS tribunal report said ‘Dr Hill had a leading part in the carefully planned conspiracy to kidnap’.
The report added: ‘[It was] planned over several months and had involved meticulous and sophisticated preparations designed to avoid detection.
‘These preparations included the use of encrypted messaging applications, codenames, prepaid mobile phones which were to be discarded after
use, more than one vehicle, false number plates, false documentation and disguises.
‘The kidnapping itself was violent, involving the use of a knife which was held to the throat of a foster carer, and the forcible abduction of the victim.
‘The foster carer’s child and baby were at the scene and witnessed this event.’
Members of the gang, including Edward and Janet Stevenson, pictured, wrongly claimed the child was at risk. Detectives scoured CCTV footage to discover those involved in the crime
The gang plotted to abduct the child after school, threatening the foster carer with a knife, pictured here, Jane Going-Hill and Wilfred Wong, left, captured on CCTV outside Bangor station in North Wales
Members of the gang were jailed for a total of 63 years following the kidnapping. Wong left, was jailed for 17 years
The RCVS panel concluded: ‘The Committee concluded that the only appropriate and proportionate sanction in this case was that of Dr Hill’s removal from the register of veterinary surgeons maintained by RCVS.
‘The Committee noted that this was a case involving serious harm to members of the public; it involved an offence the commission of which included violence; and a reasonable and fully informed member of the public would consider that it also evidenced a harmful deep-seated personality or attitude problem.’
Hill and Wong snatched the child from their foster carer as they arrived home from school on November 4 last year, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.
Hill wrestled the child from their car seat and put them in a waiting vehicle, while Wong held a knife to the foster carer’s throat before slashing one of the carer’s car tyres to prevent them from following.
They then met Janet Stevenson and Edward Stevenson, a married couple who had hired a car to take the child away from Anglesey, north Wales.
Two others, Jane Going-Hill and Kristine Petley, acted as lookouts on bridges to mainland Wales to spot any police activity, facilitating the car’s escape route.
The youngster had to travel for ‘hundreds of miles in the footwell’ of a Ford Galaxy as their captors sought to evade detection.
The child was safely recovered when the hire car was stopped on the M1 between Milton Keynes and Northampton.
In September last year Dr Hill was jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court, Wales, after she was convicted of conspiracy to kidnap. Wong, from London, was jailed for 17 years.
In total, the gang of six was jailed for 63 years. One alleged member died of suffocation while in prison awaiting trial.
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