Gardaí seek man who tried to lure girl into car

GARDAÍ are searching for a middle-aged man who tried to lure a seven-year-old girl into his car after claiming he’d been sent to pick her up from school.

According to gardaí, the man had been sitting in a small blue car parked near a national school in Cobh, Co Cork, when the incident occurred last Wednesday afternoon. At about 2.30pm the girl left the school to walk home. A short time later she passed the car in which the man was the sole occupant.

The man had the window open and told the girl to get into the car. He said one of her relatives had asked him to give her a lift home. She didn’t recognise the man and didn’t reply. There was no attempt to follow the girl and she got home safely.