Runaway sail girl ‘totally fed up with Holland’

Laura Dekker, the 14-year-old girl who wants to sail solo around the world, had just one goal when she ran away from home last week, and that was to get away from Holland and never come back, reports the AD on Thursday.


‘Dear dad, I am totally fed up with this country. I am going to find freedom. I never want anything more to do with Holland and will never return,’ she wrote in a letter to her father says the paper.
Laura was brought back to Holland this week after running away to the Caribbean island of St Maarten last week where, according to her lawyer, she wanted to buy a boat.
Laura was made a ward of court earlier this year after her plans to sail solo around the world were made public. A court in Utrecht ruled on Wednesday that Laura will not be put into care and can remain at home with her father.
‘I would love to get my school diploma but it won’t work like this. And there’s no point anymore because I really don’t want to live here with all the stupid authorities and people…I might as well forget my world trip, they will keep extending my ward of court status until I’m 18,’ said Laura in the letter.

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