{"id":464954,"date":"2026-03-08T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464954\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:05:08","slug":"urgent-search-for-missing-girl-16-last-seen-in-essex-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464954\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent search for missing girl, 16, last seen in Essex village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe she might have been in Grays or the Lakeside areas<\/p>\n<p>15:03, 08 Mar 2026Updated 15:40, 08 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photo of Leigha Harris\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0_GetImage-4jfif.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Leigha Harris is currently missing\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Leigha Harris is currently missing(Image: Essex Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Essex Police are asking for information about a 16-year-old girl who is currently missing from a village in the North Essex area. Leigha Harris was last seen at around 7am on Saturday, March 7, in the Colchester Road area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She is described as 4&#8217;6 tall, slim, with very long brown hair, which she often wears in a ponytail. She was last seen wearing a fluffy coat, a grey jumper, and black leggings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Essex Police believe she might be in the Grays or Lakeside areas. The police are asking for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone who has seen her, is with her, or has any information about where she might be should call 999 quoting the incident 1254 of 7 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police believe she might have been in Grays or the Lakeside areas 15:03, 08 Mar 2026Updated 15:40, 08&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,96308,2506,975,59,166762,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-464954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-colchester","10":"tag-essex","11":"tag-essex-police","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-grays","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464954","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=464954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}