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30/03/2015
Police Appeal Following Abduction Of 6-Year-Old Girl
Lancashire Police are appealing for witnesses of an alleged kidnapping in Burnley on Thursday 26 March.
A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of abducting a six-year-old girl on Nairne Street at about 16:00 last week.
It is understood that the girl was taken in a car and then dropped around 30 minutes later almost three miles away in Hapton.
The girl was found and returned home.
Det Ch Insp Joanne McHugh said: "We need anyone who may have witnessed a black coloured car in the Nairne Street or Whitefield Street areas around the time of the abduction to contact us."
(MH/CD)
A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of abducting a six-year-old girl on Nairne Street at about 16:00 last week.
It is understood that the girl was taken in a car and then dropped around 30 minutes later almost three miles away in Hapton.
The girl was found and returned home.
Det Ch Insp Joanne McHugh said: "We need anyone who may have witnessed a black coloured car in the Nairne Street or Whitefield Street areas around the time of the abduction to contact us."
(MH/CD)
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