Police believe five-year-old Aboriginal girl was led away by older man seen holding her hand

NT police said 47-year-old Jefferson Lewis was reported absent soon after Sharon’s family reported her disappearance in Alice Springs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Northern Territory police say they believe a five-year-old Aboriginal girl who has been missing since Saturday night was led away by a 47-year-old man, who was last seen holding the child’s hand. Police circulated an arrest order for Jefferson Lewis, who was recently released from prison, on Sunday after speaking to people who were at the same Alice Springs town camp where Sharon, the missing girl, was last seen. On Tuesday, the NT police assistant commissioner for crime and intelligence, Peter Malley, told reporters in Alice Springs that there had been no confirmed sightings of either Sharon or Lewis since Saturday night. “He was last seen with a little girl holding hands at around about 11 o’clock at night,” Malley said. Police were called by the girl’s mother in the early hours of Sunday morning. “After police got there … it was very quickly relayed to us that Jefferson Lewis was also missing, and it was pretty easy to put two and two