Cops seek foreign help in search for Mark

POLICE have contacted their international counterparts seeking assistance as investigations continue into the kidnapping of six-year-old Mark Prescott, who was grabbed by persons unknown three weeks ago, while heading home after leaving his school. Police sources revealed that local officers had sought the assistance of foreign police, after investigators worked on a theory that Prescott may have been whisked out of the country after he was snatched. However, sources were quick to add that this theory was just one of several they were working on in an effort to locate the youngster. Sources did not say if they had gotten any useful information from their foreign counterparts.

A senior police source told Newsday that they have contacted their foreign counterparts via Interpol to aid in the investigations as local investigations have turned up very little thus far. The foreign link is one of several leads police are investigating as little Mark’s abduction enters a fourth week. Pressed for further information, the source declined to disclose  which country the authorities have  notified. Mark’s father, Wayne Prescott, an offshore worker, has appealed to kidnappers to release his first son, a Second Year pupil of the San Fernando Boys’ RC School. Mark disappeared on May 15 after being dismissed from the school located on Harris Promenade, San Fernando. Last week police arrested six women on St James Street, San Fernando, who were allegedly making prank calls to Wayne Prescott. Five of the suspects were released, while one Michelle Donovan, was charged for wasting police time and fined $650 in the San Fernando Magistrates Court.