Police are investigating whether the man who abducted the four-year-old Australian girl had an accomplice

• Events The room full of dolls of the kidnapper of Cleo, the four-year-old Australian girl

• Australia Cleo, the Australian Madeleine McCann rescued by the police

The

are now focused on investigating whether the person accused of kidnapping Cleo Smith, the four-year-old girl rescued last week after

, had the help of another person.

"The objective of this week is to find out if someone else was involved (...) if anyone had contact with the suspect, saw him, met him or spoke on the phone during the period" of the alleged kidnapping and retention of the girl , as revealed by detective Cameron Blaine in statements collected this Tuesday by 'The Sydney Morning Herald'.

Blaine, one of those in charge of the investigation, who was part of the rescue of the little girl in a house in the northeastern town of

, returned the day before with a team of investigators to the scene.

The authorities had previously stated that according to their initial investigations the defendant, identified as

and 36, had acted alone and had no ties to Chloe's family.

The little girl disappeared at dawn on October 16 when she was with her mother and stepfather

, 75 kilometers from where she was rescued.

Last Wednesday, the police found the little girl locked in a house in Carnarvon, about 3 kilometers from her family residence.

The subsequent medical examination determined that Chloe was physically well, as well as that she plays and seems to behave naturally.

Kelly, who was arrested shortly after the rescue and who owns the house where the girl was found, was charged with kidnapping a minor, as well as an unknown number of charges that were not disclosed because they were under summary secrecy.

The defendant, who apparently has a fondness for dolls, is being held in Perth prison, from where he will attend the next court hearing on December 6.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

• Events

• international

• Australia

Two killed in Solomon Islands when a World War II bomb exploded

Two dead and four injured in a shooting at a shopping center in the United States

They find the body of a decapitated and disemboweled man at his grandson's house in France

See links of interest

• La Palma volcano

• Last News

• Translator

• Holidays 2021

• 2022 business calendar

• How to

• Home THE WORLD TODAY

• Fact checking

• Tenerife - Girona