Acclaimed as heroes ... 2UE's late drive show hosts Murray Olds and Murray Wilton helped NSW Police arrest an alleged kidnapper. Source: The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph reports
Radio old fellas Murray Olds and Murray Wilton - otherwise known as The Two Murrays - were enjoying hero status yesterday assisting police in relation to an alleged kidnapping during their radio program on Tuesday night.
After broadcasting an "amber alert" on their late-drive 2UE program, with police asking the general public to keep a look-out for a gold Mitsubishi Magna, a courier caught in traffic called in to say saying he had located the car.
The driver then played the part of police operative as it emerged officers were searching for the vehicle, after receiving a tip-off that two children had allegedly been kidnapped.
The delivery man, who asked to be identified only as Steve, was listening to The Two Murrays when he spotted the number plates in question on a car sitting at a set of traffic lights in Canberra.
The car - carrying children aged 4 and 12 and being driven by a woman who had allegedly "made threats" - was reported missing on the Central Coast.
"At first I thought 'Nah it can't be, it's too far from the Central Coast'," Steve told Confidential yesterday.
"But sure enough it matched all the descriptions, so I rang triple-0."
Steve said the police told him to "follow them but stay a safe distance away".
"They said not to get too close," Steve said.
"I stayed on the phone to them and was saying what streets we were on," Steve said.
Half an hour later police pounced and the event unfolded on the 2UE program.
The woman, believed to be the children's mother, was arrested.
As of last night the woman had not been charged.
Yesterday NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione praised the power of radio.
"Take a bow 2UE - when there are situations like that they get it straight out there," he said.
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