30 Jul, 2016 @ 12:11
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Romanian man who fled UK with 15-year-old girl arrested in Spain

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Elena Veronica
Missing girl

THE Romanian man who fled the UK to Spain with a 15-year-old schoolgirl has been arrested at an airport in Spain.

Ionut Gheorghe, 27, was picked up by Spanish police in Los Molinos, near Madrid, on Friday.

A European Arrest Warrant had been issued for him after it was suspected he was with a schoolgirl that had gone missing from her home.

Ionut Gheorghe
Ionut Gheorghe

The hunt for Ionut began when the girl disappeared from her home just hours after he had been spotted withdrawing £250 from a cash machine in Enfield in London.

The girl was found safe and well with Ionut.

Extradition proceedings have begun.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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