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Missing Rugby Girls Found Safe in Cornwall as New Inquiry Begins

Police have opened an investigation to establish how the schoolgirls reached Cornwall.

Overview

  • Devon and Cornwall Police located Angelica, 11, and Verity, 12, in Cornwall and Warwickshire Police said the girls have been found safe and well.
  • The family have been informed and officers say a new probe is under way to determine how the girls came to be in Cornwall.
  • The pair were reported missing from Rugby on Saturday and were last seen in Newbold at about 4am on Sunday, prompting an urgent search.
  • Warwickshire Police deployed a helicopter and a heavy ground presence and carried out area searches, house-to-house enquiries, CCTV checks and digital tracking while calling the case an operational priority.
  • Police thanked the public for sharing appeals, asked people not to run independent searches and urged anyone with information to call 999 quoting incident number 123 of 8 August.