"When we found out somebody had picked her up, straight away the messages started coming in and it became clear they were travellers, not locals."
"We thought, 'Oh my god, she's all the way up there'. We were just hoping they didn't dump her on the way, or worse,"Mr Loader said.
"Imagine if that's your child that's been kidnapped, you're going to do everything you can to get them back,"Mr Geyer said.
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