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Terence Kelly sentenced over abduction of Cleo Smith near Carnarvon in WA's outback

The court heard Kelly told police he had not been planning to keep Cleo "forever". (ABC News: Anne Barnetson)

The man who kidnapped a four-year-old girl from her family's camping tent and kept her captive for more than a fortnight in his house turned up the radio to drown out the noise of her pleading for her mother, a Perth court has heard.

Terence Darrell Kelly, 37, was sentenced to 13 years and six months in jail after pleading guilty to abducting Cleo Smith in a case that made headlines around the world.

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