The mother of a missing teenager fears she has fled with her boyfriend and is trying to 'throw her off the scent' by leaving a note insisting they have split up.
Olivia Smith, 14, disappeared on Tuesday with a handwritten letter left behind claiming she was heading from Harwich, Essex to Halifax in West Yorkshire.
The letter told her mother she had broken up with her boyfriend 'like she wanted', but Samantha Smith suspects her daughter has actually fled with Conrad Marlborough, 15.
The teenager has been dating Conrad for three months but Ms Smith, 41, said both she and the girl's father had urged her to end the relationship.