{"id":54847,"date":"2025-04-27T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54847\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:26:09","slug":"police-searching-for-missing-schoolgirl-last-seen-leaving-major-birmingham-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54847\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for missing schoolgirl last seen leaving major Birmingham landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have launched an appeal to find a missing schoolgirl after she was last seen leaving a Birmingham landmark.<\/p>\n

Mataya, who is aged 15, was reported missing from Bridgnorth and was last seen leaving New Street Station three days ago.<\/p>\n

Officers said the girl, who is around 5ft 7 ins tall, was spotted at the rail hub at 9.20pm on Thursday, April 24.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/b> Robbery horror as cyclist beaten, kicked and ‘chased bleeding’ down street for bike<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, three days on, West Mercia Police has issued two images in a bid to find her. She is said to have connections to Milton Keynes, London, Kent and Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n

In an appeal, the force said: “We are appealing for information to find 15-year-old Mataya who has been reported missing from Bridgnorth and was last seen in Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Mataya is mixed race, around 5ft 7 inches tall, of a slim build and has dark hair.<\/p>\n

“She was last seen leaving New Street Station in Birmingham on Thursday (24 April) at around 9.20pm.<\/p>\n

“The CCTV image shows her exiting the station, believed to be onto Navigation Street, wearing a black jumper and trousers and carrying an Adidas rucksack.<\/p>\n

“Mataya has connections to Milton Keynes, London, Kent and Bedfordshire. Please call 01743 264825 immediately if you see Mataya or have information on her whereabouts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched an appeal to find a missing schoolgirl after she was last seen leaving a Birmingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,27607,748,393,4884,29123,29122,16,15,16556],"class_list":{"0":"post-54847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-bridgnorth","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-mataya","14":"tag-new-street-station","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-mercia-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114410159685266367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54847","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=54847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}