Father who went missing with sons charged

A FATHER who went missing with his twin sons has been charged with abduction, police said.

Humberside Police launched a Europe-wide hunt for six-year-olds Liam and Ciaran Peasley, from Immingham, after they disappeared last month with their father, Andrew Wall, 40.

Detectives found Wall had taken his sons to Belgium by Eurostar train and they were finally found safe and well at the port of Harwich, Essex, on June 24.

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A spokeswoman for Humberside Police said Wall approached police officers voluntarily on Wednesday night.

"He attended Grimsby police station on Victoria Street yesterday evening, voluntarily, where he was arrested by officers," she said. "He has now been charged with two counts of child abduction by a parent."

Wall, of Sackville Close, Immingham, was reported missing by his partner, along with their sons, after they failed to return from a family trip to Sheffield.

Detectives discovered Wall and his sons boarded a Eurostar train at St Pancras station at around 5.30pm on June 16. They arrived at a railway station in Brussels later that evening.

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Detective Superintendent Dena Fleming, who was heading the investigation, said at the time: "Mr Wall is a loving father who has seemingly taken his two sons away to spend some time alone with them.

"However he has not told any other family members where he has gone and for that reason we are very keen to locate him and his two sons."

Wall is due at Grimsby Magistrates' Court at the next available opportunity.