A MOTHER cleared of trying to poison her daughter looks set to finally be reunited with her child – two years after the pair were split up.

Mary Kidson, who lives near Ledbury, was acquitted last November of giving the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, unnecessary medication.

But despite walking free from court, Ms Kidson still hasn't been fully reunited with her daughter following a social services decision to keep the teenager in care.

Just after Christmas she was granted permission to see her daughter once a week, but this has now been relaxed with plans underway to return her home.

"We now have an exit plan for my daughter to leave the care home and live where she wants to live, which is here with me," said Ms Kidson this week.

"We now also have unsupervised contact. It's absolutely amazing."

Ms Kidson said no timeframe for her daughter's return has yet been set, adding it's a "step by step process".

"I still can't visit her when I want but contact has been increased," she said.

"My daughter's ecstatic. She's over the moon."

A petition urging the authorities to reunite the pair has attracted almost 40,000 signatures from people around the world.

Jane Gutteridge, a friend of Ms Kidson who set-up the petition, said the matter should never have got this far.

"I'm pleased, obviously, but this should never have happened in the first place," she said.

"We couldn't believe it was happening. It has been a colossal waste of public money."

Ms Kidson found herself in court as a result of trying to find a cure for her daughter’s health problems which included general dyspraxia, speech problems and weight issues.

She went to NHS doctors in search of a cure but they said they couldn’t help her child, leading to her looking online where she found Dr Thierry Hertoghe who prescribed the youngster with medication not offered by the NHS doctors, causing a “dramatic improvement” in her condition, according to her mother.

But in March 2013, Ms Kidson was arrested and her daughter taken away.

She was later charged and remanded in custody until being freed following a three-week trial at Worcester Crown Court.