‘My name is Cleo’: how an 18-day search ended with an Australian detective holding a four-year-old girl

One of Western Australia's biggest police hunts ended with officers breaking into a house and rescuing Cleo Smith. A 36-year-old man is being questioned

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When detective Cameron Blaine broke his way into the room of the small house on the outskirts of the Western Australian town of Carnarvon, he was pretty certain the four-year-old girl inside was the one he had been searching for.

But he needed to be sure.