Police have charged a man in connection with a child abduction investigation in Leyland.
Officers were called around 11.40am on Saturday (November 12) to a report of an incident in Seven Stars Road.
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It was alleged a man had approached an eight-year-old girl in a park close to Fox Lane and attempted to take her inside an address.
Police attended and later arrested a man at the scene.
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Following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, Thomas Edwards, aged 29, of Seven Stars Road, Leyland, was charged with taking a child so as to remove her from a person having lawful control.
He appeared at Preston Magistrates’ Court on Monday (14 November) and has been remanded to appear at court at a later date.
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