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10/08/2012
Couple Claim Missing Child To Get A Lift Home
A man and woman on a day trip to Hornsea, East Yorkshire instigated a major police search after claiming their three-year-old daughter had gone missing.
More than 40 police officers, Humberside fire and rescue, Humber coastguard and volunteers from Hornsea inshore rescue were drafted in to search for the girl who, it was claimed, had gone missing from the beach five hours previously.
However, it emerged that the couple, who had travelled from Hull, did not even have a child with them.
A taxi driver who drove the couple from Hull to Hornsea contacted police and said that they did not have a child with them.
The pair eventually admitted they fabricated the story after spending their return cab fare drinking in the town.
A member of the Humberside neighbourhood policing team, which was involved in the incident, said: "Realising they had insufficient funds to get home, they made up the story about the missing child in the hope it would get them a free lift home courtesy of ourselves.
"The mentality of these people beggars belief, diverting precious and finite police resources away from areas where there may well have been a genuine need for them."
A warrant has now been issued for the arrest of a 37-year-old man, who has been charged with wasting police time and failed to appear at Beverley magistrates court.
A 20-year-old woman admitted wasting police time and accepted a caution, following the incident on 5 July.
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More than 40 police officers, Humberside fire and rescue, Humber coastguard and volunteers from Hornsea inshore rescue were drafted in to search for the girl who, it was claimed, had gone missing from the beach five hours previously.
However, it emerged that the couple, who had travelled from Hull, did not even have a child with them.
A taxi driver who drove the couple from Hull to Hornsea contacted police and said that they did not have a child with them.
The pair eventually admitted they fabricated the story after spending their return cab fare drinking in the town.
A member of the Humberside neighbourhood policing team, which was involved in the incident, said: "Realising they had insufficient funds to get home, they made up the story about the missing child in the hope it would get them a free lift home courtesy of ourselves.
"The mentality of these people beggars belief, diverting precious and finite police resources away from areas where there may well have been a genuine need for them."
A warrant has now been issued for the arrest of a 37-year-old man, who has been charged with wasting police time and failed to appear at Beverley magistrates court.
A 20-year-old woman admitted wasting police time and accepted a caution, following the incident on 5 July.
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