Kidnapper teens planned ‘serious harm’ to toddler

Two teenagers who kidnapped a toddler from a Primark store have been detained for three years and three months.

Mr Justice Globe concluded that the girls aged 13 and 14 took the two-year-old girl from her mother and serious harm to the child was foreseeable.

At Newcastle Crown Court, he told them the toddler was at risk of physical or sexual violence, and/or exploitation.