Article: Matson man obstructed police searching for girl

By John Hawkinscitizen.news@glosmedia.co.uk

POLICE searching for a teenage girl who went missing from social services care were hampered in their inquiries by a Matson man, Gloucester Crown Court was told.

John Withers, 34, refused to tell police where the 15-year-old was when he was stopped in a car in Cheltenham, said prosecutor Julian Kesner.

He spoke to her on his mobile phone as officers listened to him warning her that the police were on her trail - then he fled from police, Mr Kesner said.

Withers, of Redwell Road, Matson, was before the court for

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