Pink Floyd‘s Roger Waters used his private jet to reunite a mother with her kidnapped children.

Felicia Perkins-Ferreira had not seen her children in over four years after they were kidnapped and taken to Syria by their father in 2014.

After hearing of their plight, Waters flew Perkins-Ferreira out to the Iraq-Syria border so she could be reunited with her children, Ayyub and Mahmud.


Their father is believed to have died whilst fighting in Raqqa in 2017. According to Sky, the boys were abandoned at the side of the road by their father’s new wife after his death.

The children have been looked after in a camp where a friend of Waters, Clive Stafford-Smith, became aware of their plight. When asked about Waters, he said: “[Roger] agreed to pay for it all and flew the mother over from Trinidad. We’re going to make sure that they get on with a really productive, decent life.”

Perkins-Ferreira later thanked Waters and all those who helped to reunite her with her children saying that she was “really, really grateful” and would like to meet them “and embrace them” to express her thanks.