A POLICEMAN who went missing with a 15-year-old Worcester schoolgirl sparking a nationwide hunt is due to be questioned today.

Probationer officer Matthew Brooks was arrested at 3.30pm yesterday on suspicion of abducting Naomi Mills. As the Evening News went to press today he had not been charged.

"A man was arrested on suspicion of abduction of a 15-year-old girl," said a police spokesman.

"That man will be interviewed by officers from West Mercia Constabulary in due course.

"Because somebody has been arrested, West Mercia will not now be making any further comments at this present time. It is not our policy to confirm details of people arrested, only those charged and due to appear in court."

Meanwhile, Bev and Mel Mills were reunited with their daughter Naomi, when she returned to her home in St John's yesterday, after going missing on Friday.

Mr and Mrs Mills, of Beaconhill Drive, Worcester, thanked police officers from West Mercia Constabulary and the Northern Constabulary for doing a "fantastic job".

They said special thanks should also go to the community of Tongue who helped in the search.

The family asked to be left in peace and added that they now wanted to "get their lives back to normal".

PC Brooks' family issued statements yesterday thanking everyone who played a part in finding the pair after they went missing on Friday.

His father, Adrian Brooks, a long-serving police officer also stationed at Worcester, thanked both West Mercia and Northern Constabulary, the force who found the couple seven miles from the remote town of Kyle of Tongue on Monday night.

"I am intending to visit Scotland in the near future to thank the officers involved in person," he said.

"We would ask that the family's privacy is respected and we will be giving no other statements and interviews."

Mum Elizabeth Brooks, estranged from Mr Brooks, also issued a statement through police on behalf of herself, her daughter and Matthew's grandparents.

"We were so relieved and pleased that both Naomi and Matthew have been found safe and well and we were grateful for everybody's help in finding them," she said.