Map reveals toddler's timeline of horror '“ and how police caught her schoolgirl kidnappers

Police have released details of their operation after a three-year-old girl was kidnapped by teenagers.

The schoolgirls responsible, aged 13 and 14, have today pleaded guilty to kidnapping. Read more.

Here police detail the timeline of events:

1. 3:15pm - 3:26pm - Girls seen on CCTV stealing a dummy from the Boots store in Northumberland Street in Newcastle. Police believe they did this to help them with the kidnap.

2. 4:29pm - The girls take the three-year-old child from the Primark store and exit the store and up Northumberland Street.

3. 4:33pm - The girls and the child enter Haymarket metro station

4. 4:36pm - The girls get on a Metro train heading from Haymarket towards Gosforth

5. 4:44pm - The girls and the child get off Metro and leave South Gosforth Metro Station

6. 4:55pm - Report of missing child comes into Northumbria Police from manager at Primark in Newcastle. Alert is immediately issued to officers / partners in Newcastle and officers tasked with searching for the child.

7. 5:02pm - CCTV footage from the Sainsburys store, next to Gosforth shopping centre, shows the two girls stealing a bottle of milk.

8. 6:01pm - Child and two girls found safe and well in Gosforth Central Park by officers.

How police caught the girls: