{"id":167246,"date":"2025-06-08T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167246\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:30:10","slug":"mum-worried-sick-as-missing-schoolgirl-could-have-travelled-300-miles-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167246\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum &#8216;worried sick&#8217; as missing schoolgirl could have travelled 300 miles to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ava was last seen at Glasgow Central Station at lunchtime on Friday, June 6<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Ava.jpg\" alt=\"Ava Stewart, 13, is believed to have travelled to Birmingham\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ava Stewart, 13, is believed to have travelled to Birmingham(Image: Police Scotland Ayrshire )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police are searching for a missing schoolgirl who could have travelled nearly 300 miles to Birmingham, leaving her mum &#8220;worried sick&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ava Stewart, from Kilmarnock in Scotland, was last seen boarding a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/travel\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">train<\/a> at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/travel\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow Central Station <\/a>at around 1.35pm on Friday, June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A family friend said her mother was very concerned for her safety. Tasha Hughes posted on Facebook beneath the appeal: &#8220;Please anyone with any info contact the police or her mum, her mum is absolutely worried sick as you can imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/security-guard-snaps-hospital-visitors-31690634\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Hospital security guard &#8216;snaps&#8217; man&#8217;s arm during &#8216;illegal&#8217; move in dying relative row<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Police Scotland Ayrshire said: &#8220;Following enquiries, officers believe she may have travelled to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Providing a description of Ava, a force spokesperson continued: &#8220;Ava is described as around 4ft 11 in height, of slim build with long brown hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;When last seen, she was wearing white tracksuit bottoms, a grey crop top, a blue denim jacket and blue\/cream Nike Air Jordan trainers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;She also has a lip and nose piercing and has a coloboma feature in her left eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sgt Lana Grant added: \u201cConcerns are growing for Ava and it is important we make sure she is safe and well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We are asking anyone who has seen her or has any information on her whereabouts to please get in touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/two-court-after-shots-fired-31810600\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Two in court after shots fired in Midland road<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/major-cannabis-farm-busted-midlands-31809895\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">&#8216;Major&#8217; cannabis farm busted on Midlands high street after call from British Gas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Anyone who has information is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting reference number 3105 of June 6.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ava was last seen at Glasgow Central Station at lunchtime on Friday, June 6Ava Stewart, 13, is believed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,8955,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-midlands-traffic-and-travel","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647048141723365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}