A man pleaded not guilty today to charges of kidnapping a 13-year-old boy who was found four days later in the man’s apartment with another boy who had been missing for more than four years.

The man accused of abducting two teenage boys in the US is scheduled for to appear in court today for arraignment in one of the cases.

WHILE his alleged kidnapper was away at work, teenager Shawn Hornbeck apparently had access to a computer, and may have put photos of himself online and posted a chilling message on a site created by his own desperate parents: “How long are you planning to look for your son?”

The trial of a woman facing the death penalty for drowning her five young children has heard of the scene of horror which greeted police.