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)

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