A man has been arrested for allegedly making three hoax calls to police claiming he had kidnapped Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The man, who is from the Wrexham area, is accused of making the calls to detectives in Cambridgeshire.

You will get hoaxers and sick people calling and that is an unfortunate by-product of this sort of investigation

Cambridgeshire Police spokes person

A spokesman for North Wales Police said on Tuesday: "Overnight on August 15 and 16, Cambridgeshire Police received three calls from a caller in Wrexham stating he had kidnapped the two girls.

"As a result, a local man has been arrested and released on police bail."

Detectives have charged a man with the murder of the girls after two bodies were discovered in remote fenland in Suffolk on Saturday.

School caretaker Ian Huntley, 28, is being held at Rampton high security hospital in Nottinghamshire after being detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.

His girlfriend Maxine Carr, 25, has been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Meanwhile, a five-hour post-mortem carried out on the bodies believed to be those of the two 10-year-old girls has proved "inconclusive".

Caretaker Ian Huntley, 28, is being held

Police said it could take pathologists several weeks to find out how the girls died.

During the investigation into the disappearance of the 10-year-olds, detectives received more than 14,000 calls.

Commenting on the arrest over the hoax calls a Cambridgeshire police spokesman said not all leads were positive: "As you can imagine we're logging a lot of calls at the moment."

"Unfortunately you will get hoaxers and sick people calling and that is an unfortunate by-product of this sort of investigation."

The man arrested in Wrexham in connection with hoax calls has been released on police bail.

He is due to return to a police station in north Wales at a later date.