A teenager has been charged after a car was stolen with two children inside it - including an 11-month-old baby.

Martin Cawley, 19, was arrested by police at 1.15pm on Tuesday (July 19).

Cawley, of no fixed address, was taken to a south London police station and was charged on Wednesday, July 20, with kidnap, child abduction and aggravated taking and driving away.

He will appear before Highbury Corner Magistrates today (July 21).

The incident on July 2 in Kempe Road, Enfield, occurred after a 27-year-old woman parked her three-door Vauxhall Astra, leaving her 12-year-old daughter and the baby inside.

After the woman left the vehicle a man got in. As he drove off the young girl was able to escape, but the baby remained trapped inside.

The youngster was found a short while later, uninjured, on the doorstep of a house in Guinevere Gardens, Cheshunt, and police were called.

The car was later found abandoned in Coopers Walk, Cheshunt.