Man is charged with false imprisonment after three missing girls found

Sunday 01 September 1996 23:02 BST

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A man was charged last night with false imprisonment after a nationwide alert over three missing girls. Alan Tomkins, 33, of Torrington, Devon, will appear before magistrates today in Barnstaple, Devon.

His stepdaughter Hanna and her friends Laura Hill and Amy Sands, all 16, were found on Saturday at a telephone kiosk at South Petherton, near Yeovil, Somerset, 50 miles from their homes in Torrington. Mr Tomkins was arrested after being stopped on the M4 near Bristol. Jojo Moyes

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