Cleo Smith update: charges expected over suspected abduction as WA police release audio of rescue
by Elias Visontay and Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#5RG5G)
West Australian police say 36-year-old Carnarvon man being questioned after he was twice hospitalised due to self-inflicted injuries
A West Australian man being interviewed regarding the suspected abduction of Cleo Smith has been released from hospital after he was treated for self-inflicted injuries for the second time, police say, with investigators expected to announce charges imminently.
The WA premier, Mark McGowan, visited Cleo and her family in Carnarvon on Thursday. He gave the four-year-old two teddy bears named after the officers who rescued her in the early hours of Wednesday morning - 18 days after she went missing from her family's tent at a remote campsite on the north-west coast of WA.
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