Police are appealing for information to help trace this man wanted in connection with the kidnapping of a solicitor and a plot to defraud two high street banks.

Wanted - Mark Wylde

Essex Police want to find Mark Wylde, 29, thought to be living in Thurrock.

Police warned the public not to approach Wylde but to contact them immediately.

The appeal comes after a 35-year-old solicitor was kidnapped in Essex in July last year by a gang of men after he refused to help them in a scam to defraud NatWest and Lloyds TSB.

Ten men in their twenties and thirties, from Essex, London and Hertfordshire, have been charged with several offences.

The charges include false imprisonment, conspiracy to defraud and demanding money with menaces. The men are in custody awaiting trial early next year.

Published Wednesday August 11, 2004

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