Megan Police Defend Four-day Delay over Warrant

By Rhoda Buchanan, Laura Dixon, John Simpson
The Times
September 27, 2012

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3551349.ece

A European arrest warrant was not issued for the teacher who ran away with the schoolgirl Megan Stammers until four days after the pair were reported missing, police said yesterday.

Sussex Police defended itself over claims that it should have acted sooner, as the father of Jeremy Forrest, the missing teacher, issued an appeal for his son to make contact.