{"id":670788,"date":"2026-01-03T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:34:29","slug":"missing-girl-14-from-birmingham-prompts-urgent-police-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670788\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing girl, 14, from Birmingham prompts urgent police appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaitlyn, 14, went missing from the city on New Year&#8217;s Eve<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_missing1JPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" \/>Missing Kaitlyn(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">West Midlands Police have launched an urgent hunt for a missing teenage girl from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kaitlyn, 14, went missing from the city on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She was last seen wearing black leggings, a grey crop top, grey coat with black Nike trainers and a shoulder bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/man-hiding-lidl-refrigerator-arrested-33157317\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Man &#8216;hiding in Lidl refrigerator&#8217; 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in snow and freezing weather<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police said they are concerned for her welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The force has issued a picture of her as part of the missing person appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement, police said: &#8220;Have you seen Kaitlyn, aged 14, who\u2019s missing from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/birmingham?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZbueDS3ftnZk2PAhH7mdkaUjy7kCIjgX7hNvfgyTG14gJDjaG-D5p9FvqJ8O1kqUCkqAEFvBvdLwtOAZjMCFo0qwW1dUN_sxDL8VDjTsTE1VTzU1lHldJZUdtTKUJSfgvM7bbdXkiOc__B8u5gGzdYzbMlY2oXR_ePMnjaAYLbOlZZtjCrIIjYoudEpjuoLCoE&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">#Birmingham<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><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.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\"\/>&#8220;Kaitlyn was last seen on 31 December wearing black leggings, a grey crop top, grey coat with black Nike trainers and a shoulder bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We\u2019re concerned for her welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;So if you see her or have any information about her whereabouts call us on 101, quoting incident number 3471 of 31 December.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn, 14, went missing from the city on New Year&#8217;s EveMissing Kaitlyn(Image: WMP) West Midlands Police have launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10008,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670788","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-missing-people","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830250945041356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670788","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=670788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}