Schoolgirl 'flew back to UK without ex-Marine'
Missing schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington only stayed in Paris for about an hour
before flying to Liverpool airport, French police say.
A spokesman adds former US Marine Toby Studabaker did not travel to Liverpool
with her.
Detectives in Greater Manchester believe the 12-year-old girl and ex-US Marine
Toby Studabaker, 31, flew to Paris together on Saturday.
But tonight French police said Shevaun flew back to the UK about an hour after
arriving at Paris Charles De Gaulle airport. Studabaker was not on the Easyjet
flight back to Liverpool, a spokesman said.
"We believe Shevaun took the flight with five other people to Liverpool," the
spokesman added.
A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester police said: "We are going to investigate
the allegations that have come from France to see if there is any substance to
them."
It is thought detectives in Greater Manchester had not been aware of the
development until told of the news by reporters.
An hour earlier the French authorities had still been insisting there was no
evidence to say Shevaun had ever arrived in the country.
Earlier today detectives in Greater Manchester said they were looking at the
possibility that the pair may have caught a connecting flight and not stayed in
the French capital.
Greater Manchester Police stressed it was only one of a number of possibilities
they were examining as the search was stepped up in Europe for the pair, who met
on the internet.
