A 14-year-old schoolgirl who fled home after leaving a note saying she had split from her boyfriend and was going to Halifax has been found safe and well.
Olivia Smith had been dating Conrad Marlborough, 15, for three months before her parents urged her to end the relationship.
Before leaving her home in Harwich, Essex, after 5am on Tuesday, she left her parents a note saying she was going to the Yorkshire town to sort herself out after the break-up.
But police have today confirmed that they are no longer looking for the youngster as she was found yesterday.
Olivia Smith,14 - who fled home after leaving a note saying she had split from her boyfriend and was going to Halifax - has been found safe and well.
Worried father appeals for missing daughter to return home WORRIED parents have issued an appeal for help after their teenage daughter went missing in the early hours of the morning. Olivia Slater, aged 14, is believed to have left her mother’s home in Manor Road, Dovercourt, between 5am and 7am on Tuesday. Police are investigating. The schoolgirl, who has been described as being about 5ft tall and of slim build, is said to have gone missing on at least two separate occasions in the past. But this time, her parents say she left a note in which she apologised before saying she was heading to Halifax to “sort myself out” having ended a relationship.
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.