{"id":558653,"date":"2026-04-30T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:06:19","slug":"police-locate-missing-devon-girls-11-and-12-who-left-school-and-didnt-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558653\/","title":{"rendered":"Police locate missing Devon girls, 11 and 12, who left school and didn’t come home"},"content":{"rendered":"

An urgent appeal had been launched<\/p>\n

Sophie Grubb Content Editor<\/p>\n

11:20, 30 Apr 2026Updated 12:54, 30 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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Police officers were urging people to come forward(Image: Derby Telegraph)<\/p>\n

Police have located two missing<\/a> Devon schoolgirls after a public appeal.<\/p>\n

Officers asked for help this morning and said they were concerned about the safety of Kingsbridge <\/a>schoolgirls Kelsie, 11, and Phoebe, 12.<\/p>\n

Devon and Cornwall Police previously said officers were “growing increasingly concerned for their welfare” after the girls left school together yesterday (Wednesday, April 29).<\/p>\n

Concerns escalated after the girls were sighted this morning (Thursday) at Torquay <\/a>bus station. It is believed they could have hitchhiked to the area and were using public transport to get around Devon.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said earlier: “They have been sighted at a cashpoint in Torquay this morning [Thursday] and at the town\u2019s bus station, possibly then boarding a bus to Brixham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Kelsie is described as a white female, 5ft 2ins tall, with gingery long hair. She is believed to be wearing grey trousers, a grey hoodie and a black rucksack.<\/p>\n

“Phoebe is described as 5ft tall with blonde hair and wearing a large black bag, a blue top, black trainers and black bottoms.<\/p>\n

“It is believed they may have previously been hitchhiking in the South Hams<\/a> and using public transport to move around Devon.”<\/p>\n

An update shared shortly before 12.30pm confirmed: “We are pleased to share that Kelsie, 11, and Phoebe, 12, who had been reported missing from the Kingsbridge area, have been found. Thank you for sharing our appeal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An urgent appeal had been launched Sophie Grubb Content Editor 11:20, 30 Apr 2026Updated 12:54, 30 Apr 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38072,14689,59,57,58,67808,21394,50,7557,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-brixham","tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kingsbridge","tag-missing-people","tag-news","tag-torquay","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558653","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=558653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}