Close but no cigar Brietta, it was less than 400 metres.
Perhaps ... but only because of being hotly pursued.
If memory serves me well abductor had also gone to the trouble of disguising himself with a false moustache.
Children get abducted by strangers in the most bizarre circumstances. For example ...
The incident of the kidnapper caught on CCTV being chased down the street and the incident of the little girl being snatched from inside a shop had in common the fact that they were recorded plus the witnesses knew a kidnap was in progress.
Despite the poignant footage of James Bulger being led away no-one knew he was being kidnapped. I wonder if without that footage James's vile abduction and murder would ever have been solved.
Who would have suspected that two young boys would do such a thing? The many witnesses who thought they were seeing two brothers being hard on a sibling would probably never had made the connection without the CCTV.
The little girl snatched from her home while her mother slept was discovered badly injured in her back yard.
Had her abductor removed her from the scene of his crime, she might never have been found to become yet another 'mystery' and her mother another obvious suspect. Shows that children are abducted from the safety of their homes ... although there may well be those who might think that she woke and wandered right into the hands of an attacker who just happened to be outside.
