By Steve Nolan PUBLISHED: 12:01 EST, 12 December 2013 | UPDATED: 14:30 EST, 12 December 2013 Police are searching for Kyshan Van Der Zanden, right and his daughter Lylah, centre, after he allegedly snatched her from her mother Gemma Mountney, left Spanish detectives have launched a hunt for a Belgian man who snatched his toddler daughter away from her British mother. Kyshan Van Der Zanden, 22, made sure that his partner Gemma Mountney was out of the house all day by treating her to shopping vouchers and a trip to the spa. He then packed up his and his daughter Laylah's belongings from their Alicante home and fled before the 21-month-old's mother returned.
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Kyshan Van Der Zanden is thought to have taken 21-month-old Laylah
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He told her mother Gemma Mountney that he'd taken Laylah to nursery
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Van Der Zanden distracted his partner with shoe shopping vouchers and a spa trip
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While she was out of the house he packed up his belongings and fled
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Ms Mountney went to pick Laylah up from nursery and was told she never arrived
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