The detective leading the hunt for missing schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman has made a video appeal to their presumed abductor to call him by midnight today on a hotline.
"You do have a way out," Supt David Beck said in the taped message.
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"I have left you a personal message and a text message on Jessica's mobile phone," he said. "Listen to that message. It will tell you how to contact me so that we can stop this now".
Holly and Jessica vanished from their home town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4th. Despite a police hunt, thought to be Britain's biggest-ever missing persons inquiry, there has been no trace of them.
"I still believe they are alive and I have got to focus on what happened in Soham that night," Supt Beck told reporters on Wednesday. "It amazes me that two young girls could just disappear without being seen."
Holly and Jessica were seen twice on the evening they vanished but they have not been seen since. A police spokeswoman said the investigation was focusing on the actions of the girls between and after those last two confirmed sightings.
More than 300 officers are working on the case and processing about 10,000 telephone calls from the public. But detectives say there have been few positive leads.