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A 12-year-old girl who has been missing since the weekend has flown to France with a 31-year-old former US marine, police said today.

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A police spokeswoman today confirmed that the schoolgirl had met up with former US marine Toby Studebaker, who is originally from Michigan, and had flown to France on Saturday.

Mr Studebaker, who left the military last week, had flown to Manchester from Detroit before meeting up with the girl, to whom he had been writing for around a year after they met over the internet.