AN ALLEGED kidnapper who sparked a massive manhunt has been captured by police.

Dwayne Callender, aged 23, was arrested in Brockley on December 20 ending a four-month search by Lewisham police.

News Shopper ran a number of appeals trying to trace Callender and the case was also featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme.

The charge relates to the capture of a bus driver, who was bundled into a car in Musgrove Road, New Cross, in the early hours of September 1.

The victim was taken to a car park where he was subjected to a three-day ordeal, during which he was beaten and tortured with a steam iron.

Callender, of no fixed address, appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court, on December 21, charged with kidnap.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Greenwich Magistrates' Court in the new year.