Man arrested over missing teenager

CRIME: A Romanian man who fled from the UK to Spain with a teenage girl has been arrested.

Ionut Gheorghe, 27, was detained in Los Molinos near Madrid on Friday by Spanish police under a European Arrest Warrant.

The girl, Elena Ciochina, 15, was found safe and well at the same location, Scotland Yard said. A manhunt was sparked after Elena, who is also Romanian, disappeared from her home in Newham, east London, on Saturday evening.