{"id":336026,"date":"2025-12-26T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:31:11","slug":"urgent-appeal-for-teenage-girl-who-went-missing-days-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336026\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent appeal for teenage girl who went missing days before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p>An urgent appeal has been launched as police try to find track down a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/missing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/safecall-campaign-missing-people-children-target-b2886502.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teenage girl who disappeared <\/a>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/safecall-campaign-missing-people-charity-christmas-b2885802.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">few days before Christmas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isla Davies, 17, was last seen at Warrington Bank Quay Railway Station on Monday 22 December at around 5.30pm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/runcorn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheshire<\/a> Police are searching for the young girl who is described as \u201c5&#8217;9&#8243; tall, with dyed red hair, brown eyes, and has a tattoo on her middle finger of an infinity symbol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was last seen wearing a black leather jacket and white trousers and is believed to be wearing slider style shoes or grey Converse trainers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/teenager\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teenager<\/a> has links to Warrington, Halton, and Merseyside, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/isla-davies.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Isla Davies, 17, was last seen on Monday 22 December at Warrington Bank Quay Railway Station at around 5.30pm\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/><\/p>\n<p>open image in gallery<\/p>\n<p>Isla Davies, 17, was last seen on Monday 22 December at Warrington Bank Quay Railway Station at around 5.30pm (Isla Davies)<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Robert McLoughlin said: &#8220;It has now been three days since anyone has seen Isla and our officers have conducted a number of enquiries to locate her. As part of our ongoing investigation, we are now asking anyone who has any information relating to her whereabouts to please contact us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are also asking anyone who may have captured her on any dash cam footage or on CCTV to please get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to appeal to Isla directly to please get in contact with us to let us know you are safe and well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information regarding Isla&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to contact Cheshire Police <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cheshire.police.uk\/ro\/report\/\">via the website<\/a> or on 101 quoting IML 2238951.<\/p>\n<p>A young person is reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/missing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing<\/a> roughly every two-and-a-half minutes in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/safecallreasons.jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A young person is reported missing roughly every two-and-a-half minutes in the UK\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/><\/p>\n<p>open image in gallery<\/p>\n<p>A young person is reported missing roughly every two-and-a-half minutes in the UK (The Independent)<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas season, The Independent raised \u00a3165,000 in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/safecall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SafeCall<\/a> campaign to tackle this national crisis and offer support, safety and connection to vulnerable children when they need it most. <\/p>\n<p>Our publication is working alongside the charity Missing People &#8211; the free, round-the-clock service which was set up to reach the 72,000 children who disappear in the UK every year. <\/p>\n<p>To <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missingpeople.org.uk\/independent\">donate now<\/a> to The Independent and Missing People\u2019s SafeCall campaign, which has raised \u00a3165,000 to create a free, nationwide service helping vulnerable children find safety and support.<\/p>\n<p>For advice, support and options if you or someone you love goes missing, text or call the charity Missing People on 116 000. It\u2019s free, confidential and non-judgemental. Or visit <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.missingpeople.org.uk\/get-help\">missingpeople.org.uk\/get-help<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-336026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}