A six-year-old girl snatched from her mother's arms as she walked to school asked for a burger and to see her brother in the moments after she was found alive.

Little Amy-Lee de Jager is the daughter of F1 powerboat racing champion Wynand de Jager and a ransom demand for two million rand – about £110,000 – was made for her safe return.

She had been snatched from her mum's arms outside her primary school on the outskirts of Johannesburg in South Africa yesterday morning.

She was dragged screaming into a 4×4 by a gang of kidnappers as her distraught mother, Angeline, suffered a shoulder injury as she battled in vain to keep hold of her little girl.

The kidnappers later called Mr de Jager stating how much the ransom was for. 

But 19 hours later, after intense publicity around the kidnapping, Amy-Lee was found dumped at the side of the road.

A man discovered her crying in the street at 2am and rushed her to the police station.

It is believed the publicity surrounding the case was so huge the kidnappers panicked and realised the little girl was "too hot to handle", according to a South African Police Service source.

After she was let go, the source said: "Her photo was all over the internet and the news and we think they thought they were better off cutting their losses and ditching Amy-Lee."

The girl's aunt Louise Horn told TimesLIVE: "She has been found. The people dropped her off in the streets and a woman and her man heard her crying and rushed her to the police station. It was about 2am.

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