Kidnapped British Boy Back Home At Last
The five-year-old boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan and held for almost two weeks is back with his family in Britain.
Covered in a blanket, Sahil Saeed was carried in through the back door of the family home in Oldham by his father Raja.
The youngster later made a brief appearance with his parents on the doorstep of their terraced house.
He appeared tired and rubbed his eyes at the blaze of flash photography that greeted him. A few seconds later they went back inside.
Sahil and his father had earlier flown to Manchester on a flight from the Pakistani capital Islamabad. They were taken from there to Oldham in a police convoy.
As they flew home two Pakistani men and a Romanian woman appeared in court in Tarragona, Spain, for a preliminary hearing.
They were remanded in custody accused of kidnapping a minor. A judge will decide in a few days which country should preside over the investigation.
The suspects were arrested when Spanish police raided a flat in Constanti after a £110,00 ransom for Sahil's safe return was paid.
Five-year-old British Sahil Saeed plays with a football at the British high Commission in Islamabad
Sahil enjoyed a kick around in the garden of the British High Commission
Sahil was reunited with his father at the British High Commission in Islamabad 13 days after he was snatched by gunmen at his grandmother's home.
Footage released of the reunion showed him sending a message to his mother. Prompted by his father, he said: "Mummy, I miss you. Mummy, I love you."
A spokesman for the commission said: "Sahil was playing football with his father in the garden and seemed really happy."
A statement released by Mr Saeed said he was "completely overjoyed" at seeing his son.
The statement continued: "Sahil is doing well, is in good spirits, and can't wait to return to the UK to see his mum, his family, and join his friends back at school."
Spanish policemen handcuffing two men during a police operation in Constanti
Police in Spain swooped on a flat in Constanti and arrested three people
Sahil was on holiday with his father in the Punjab region when he was abducted on March 5.
He was found by locals wandering in a field on Tuesday, alone but well, and handed over to Pakistani police.
Sky's Asia correspondent Alex Crawford said: "Sahil said he had been kept in a village and was looked after by a woman.
"He enjoyed a horse-riding trip and was given a bicycle and toy gun to play with."
Meanwhile, it has emerged Sahil's father went to Paris to pay the ransom demand made by his son's kidnappers.
The three suspects arrested in Spain are led into the Tarragona court
Surveillance officers watched him make the transfer and later swooped on a number of suspects, recovering about £105,000 in cash.
Two men detained in Paris in connection with the kidnapping have been released, French police have said.
The pair, believed to be father and son, were relatives of two of those being held in Spain
Crawford said there are still many unanswered questions in the investigation that she likened to "a scene out of some top crime novel".
"Pakistan's interior minister is still insisting that some member of the family was involved, but we're being told to wait and all will be revealed later on," she said.