Hunt launched for man with red eyes in child kidnapping attempt

WEST MIDLANDS: UK police have launched an urgent hunt for a ‘man with red eyes’ involved in an attempt to kidnap a child.

West Midlands Police said the incident occurred on Leicester Street where a three-year-old girl had been outside a house in the evening when a man attempted to kidnap her. The child’s mother managed to intervene and the suspect ran away.

Police officers reached the spot and are working to find the man.

The suspect is around 5ft 9ins tall in height, aged in their 20s to 30s and believed to be mixed race.

He has facial hair, short curly dark hair and brown eyes which reportedly showed signs of reddening.

Detective inspector (DI) Nicola Pestel at Wolverhampton CID said that ‘We understand that this will be a shock for people, and our investigation to trace and detain the person involved is moving at pace”.

‘We’d ask everyone in the area to support us by coming forward with any information they may have, to check doorbell cameras or dashcams in their cars, for any footage which may assist our enquiries”, he added.

Meanwhile, UK lawmakers backed better safeguards for home-schooled children following the brutal murder of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl, in a vote overshadowed by the recent row over grooming gangs.

MPs progressed the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to the next stage of the parliamentary process without the need for a further formal vote.

That came after MPs rejected an amendment that threatened to derail the legislation.

The opposition Conservative party had sought to use the debate to force the establishment of a new national inquiry into sex offences dating back decades against children in northern England.

Controversy has swirled around the issue over the past week after US tech billionaire Elon Musk made repeated incendiary attacks against Britain’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer about it on his X platform.

Starmer has rejected calls for a new inquiry, arguing it is time for “action” to implement the almost two dozen recommendations made in an earlier seven-year-long inquiry with a broader focus.