POLICE hope a TV reconstruction will help catch two kidnappers who targetted a High Wycombe bank.

Lorna August, the 23-year-old girlfriend of Kevin Paxton, assistant manager of the High Wycombe National Westminster branch, was snatched by two masked men from her Aylesbury home at 8am on June 26.

She managed to escape after she was tied up and dumped in Park Wood, near Naphill, by two men who contacted the bank and demanded money for her safe return.

On Tuesday, the dramatic events will be the subject of an appeal on the BBC Crimewatch programme.

This week, detectives said that a large blue refuse bag containing two holdalls had been found by officers in a dustbin in Corporation Street, High Wycombe, on the day of the kidnap.

A police spokesman said: "We can reveal that the kidnappers telephoned the National Westminster bank from a public phone box at High Wycombe railway station and demanded money.

"When they rang the bank at 9.30am they said the bags were left in the bin and they asked Mr Paxton to collect the bags and fill them up with money."

But Lorna escaped from woodland at around 10.30am and raised the alarm at a nearby house, and no money was handed over to the kidnappers.

Police have constructed two e-fits of the kidnappers, which will be released next week after the Crimewatch programme is broadcast.

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