Six arrested on suspicion of abducting girls
Six arrested on suspicion of abducting girls
Alice Cullinane - West Midlands Wed, August 12, 2026 at 10:51 AM UTC
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Six people have been arrested on suspicion of abducting two girls after they disappeared from a town in Warwickshire.
Police said three men and three women had been arrested and remained in custody after the girls went missing from Rugby and were found in Cornwall on Tuesday.
Two men, 62 and 25, and a 56-year-old woman from Tintagel, Cornwall, were arrested earlier along with two women, 75 and 47, from Rugby and a 42-year-old man from Falmouth.
The girls, aged 11 and 12, had last been seen in the Newbold area of Rugby during the early hours on Sunday before they were found on Tuesday, Warwickshire Police said.
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Police said the girls had previously lived in Cornwall and were investigating how they managed to travel more than 200 miles.
They were found "safe and well" by Warwickshire officers after carrying out house-to-house inquiries and the police helicopter.
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