Three men have been arrested on suspicion of kidnap after a teenager went missing from a party 175 miles from her home. Carmelle Hepi, 13, from Barnsley, was reported missing by her family to South Yorkshire Police just after midnight on Sunday, June 25.
Officers there contacted counterparts from the Metropolitan Police after establishing that she had gone to Barnsley station and then on to Sheffield before travelling to London Kings Cross St Pancras, and would have arrived in London at about 6.09pm on Saturday.
The investigation was transferred to the Met on Sunday and investigating officers said enquires so far lead them to believe that she went to Watling Street, in the SE15 area, on Sunday night. There, she went to a birthday party with other teenagers at around 10pm before leaving with another group of people in a car at around 11pm.
