A man has been arrested in connection with the attempted abduction of a three-year-old girl in Wolverhampton.

West Midlands Police received reports that a man tried to pick up and take the girl while she was outside a house on Leicester Street at about 17:15 GMT on Thursday.

He was stopped by the child’s mother and is then understood to have left in the direction of Harrow Street.

A 37-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of attempting to kidnap the girl and was in custody for questioning, police said.

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