From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/04 (08:09) MAN QUIZZED OVER GUN KIDNAP By Paul Watson, PA News Police were today questioning a man named as wanted in connection with the kidnapping of a family at gunpoint. Detectives yesterday said they wanted to interview 58-year-old Peter Robert Hughes over the abduction of Marilyn Rowell, her two children and a family friend from her L250,000 house in Horsforth, Leeds. West Yorkshire Police last night arrested the man after a swoop at a Bradford pub. A police spokesman said: "Following an operation at a pub in the Bradford area police have arrested a 58-year-old man in connection with the robbery at Horsforth and he is being questioned at Weetwood police station." The police appeal for help in tracing Hughes came after the incident on Wednesday in which businesswoman Ms Rowell gave a man a tour of her detached home before he said he would return with his wife. The man returned that evening and sat for an hour claiming to be waiting for his wife, who he said was staying at a nearby hotel. Ms Rowell, 46, eventually agreed to drive him to find her. She got into the family car with her two youngest children, Gabby, 11, and Gregory, eight, and friend Dawn Birks, 39. The man sat in the passenger seat. "We had driven a few yards when he suddenly pulled out this gun," said Ms Rowell. She was then forced to drive to her crystal wholesale business in Horsforth and fetch �60 from the petty cash before going to a bed and breakfast in Headingley to collect the man's suitcase. "By this time he was getting very agitated," she said. "Suddenly he pointed the gun down and it went off." The man then ordered the terrified hostages out of the car and drove off. Estate agents Whitegates, which arranged the viewing of Ms Rowell's home, has said it will look at possible improvements to its procedures following Wednesday's abduction. Hugh Dunsmore-Hardy, chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, said such incidents were very rare. "Agents are aware of security risks, not just to staff but to clients as well," he said. "Our members will offer to have an agent present at all viewings." Kenneth Pantling Whatever happens they have got The Maxim Gun, and we have not. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
