Nationwide hunt after girl abducted

Police are continuing to hunt a man who abducted a teenage girl and subjected her to a "horrendous" 15-hour ordeal.

The 15-year-old girl, from Wrexham, North Wales, was snatched from a street in her home town on Friday afternoon and later found 70 miles away.

Police say they want to trace Alan Grant, from Stockport, who also uses the name of Alan Weston, in connection with the kidnapping. They have warned the public not to approach him under any circumstances as they are "very concerned about the level of threat posed by him".

Detectives said the teenager was "extremely traumatised" by her ordeal and was now back with her family and receiving medical treatment.

Officers are now concentrating their search for her kidnapper on the southern areas of the town of Bangor where she was found.

Detective Superintendent Peter Chalinor of North Wales Police, who is in charge of the investigation, said: "We need to speak to Mr Grant as soon as possible.

"We do not - I repeat do not - want the public to approach him, but to call 999. We are trying to protect the public."

He appealed for Mr Grant to give himself up by calling 999 or walking into a police station.

But despite appeals for information, a police spokesperson admitted: "We've had very few calls from the public with regards to sightings of Mr Grant/Weston, and the few we've had we're following up."

A police spokesman said that detectives took the unusual decision to release Mr Grant's name because there had been such a high level of concern about the girl's safety.