14/03/2007

Man arrested over missing teenager

An 18-year-old Italian man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction in connection with the disappearance of a teenage girl from her home in Essex at the weekend.

The 13-year-old girl vanished from her home in Tillingham, near Southminster on Sunday morning after telling her parents that she was going to visit a friend.

The teenager was found at a hotel in London on Tuesday night and is reported to be safe and well.

(KMcA/SP)




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