He said: 'Amy-Leigh was released unharmed at about 2.30am on Tuesday morning having been kidnapped at 7.40am on Monday outside her school and we have made three arrests during an intelligence-led operation. Just before midnight on Wednesday the police team swooped on three addresses in the town where she was abducted and arrested a man and two women - one of whom was know to Amy-Leigh's family.īrigadier Vishnu Naidoo said the suspects were aged between 27 and 50 and said the search for the rest of the gang continues. TimesLIVE cited sources from the police investigation had confirmed to them that a woman arrested in a midnight swoop taught at Kollegepark Primary School where the girl was abducted from on Monday.Ī separate source who is a family member said one of the people arrested was a 'very close family friend' and added 'the other suspect is also connected to the family'. Little Amy-Leigh was the subject of a nationwide manhunt for 19 hours until her abductors, fearing the net was closing in, dropped the girl off in the darkness on a street corner. Mr de Jager added: 'I wish to make it very clear that my family had no hand in this.' The family have come under pressure from cruel trolls on social media suggesting that they were involved in the kidnapping of their own daughter. It has also emerged that one of the suspected kidnappers was a teacher at her school and was 'known' to the family, who have been forced to deny they were involved.įormula 1 powerboat champion Wynand told News24: 'I can confirm that one of the suspects is indeed Jayden's teacher. Three people aged between 27 and 50 have been arrested in connection with the case. The picture shows a dingy room with a grimy floor, a dilapidated sofa in one corner and a metal structure in another.Īmy-Leigh, the daughter of sports star Wynand de Jager, was eventually rescued after her abductors, who had demanded a £110,000 ransom, abandoned her on a deserted street corner in Vanderbijlpark.
Sources in the investigation told News24 the room was 'almost like a dungeon' and said: 'It was no place for a child hell, it was not fit for any human.' Six-year-old Amy-Leigh de Jager was kept in 'appalling conditions' during a 19-hour nationwide manhunt after she was snatched from her mother Angeline's hands at the school gates. The first picture has emerged of a filthy room 'like a dungeon' where a kidnapped South African girl was held after she was snatched from school.
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