Police in Lancing have charged a man with child abduction after he was found with a teenage girl.
Officers were alerted to James Wadhawan, 34, being in the company of the teenager on a bridge near the A27 on Wednesday (13 March).
They went to the bridge and said that he was found there with the girl and arrested on suspicion of being in breach of an existing “child abduction warning notice” (CAWN).
Wadhawan, of Fetherston Road, in Lancing, was subsequently charged with detaining a child so as to keep her from a person having lawful control and remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Friday (15 March).
