A GERMAN doctor who went on the run after poisoning his lover's 14-year-old daughter more than 27 years ago has been found, bound and gagged, outside a French court. The girl's father has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap.

Andre Bamberski, 71, has accused the French and German authorities of being unwilling to catch Dieter Krombach, 74, who was convicted of manslaughter in his absence in 1995. A French court sentenced him to 15 years for the death of Kalinka Bamberski. The blonde teenager died after receiving an injection at Krombach's home in Lindau, Germany, during a visit with her mother in 1982. Kalinka's father is convinced that Krombach drugged his daughter in order to rape her.

The doctor was found at the weekend, trussed and bleeding from a head wound, in a doorway near the court in the eastern French city of Mulhouse, close to the German border.

Mr Bamberski told police in an anonymous telephone call where Krombach could be found. He later admitted that he had made the call and put on a ''thick Russian accent'' to try to avoid detection.

The cardiologist was taken to hospital under police custody. His lawyer, Francois Serres, said he had been ''kidnapped and forcibly taken out of Germany''.