{"id":951292,"date":"2026-05-10T22:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:04:17","slug":"urgent-search-and-call-999-alert-after-girl-15-with-links-to-greater-manchester-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951292\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent search and ‘call 999’ alert after girl, 15, with links to Greater Manchester vanishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie-Lou Berry was reported missing on Friday\"Katie-Lou<\/p>\n

Katie-Lou Berry was reported missing on Friday(Image: Merseyside Police)<\/p>\n

An urgent search is underway with a ‘call 999’ alert issued after a teenage girl was reported missing. Katie-Lou Berry, 15, was last seen on Friday (May 8) at around 6.10pm close to the Botanic Gardens.<\/p>\n

Merseyside Police said enquiries are ongoing to find her, with a photo of the teenager issued as part of the public appeal. She is described as being 5ft 6in tall, with long brown hair and of slim build.<\/p>\n

She has a nose piercing and speaks with a Bolton<\/a> accent. When last seen, she was wearing a pink vest top, black leggings, black fur jacket, and white Nike Air Max trainers.<\/p>\n

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Merseyside Police said Katie-Lou often visits Southport, Bootle, Liverpool and the Farnworth area of Bolton. Anyone with information is being urged to contact police immediately.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police<\/a> also shared the public appeal. A statement added: “If you see Katie-Lou please call 999 immediately so we can make sure she is safe.<\/p>\n

“You can also pass on any sightings of him via our form: https:\/\/www.merseyside.police.uk\/ro\/report\/mp\/v2\/add-something-reported-missing\/<\/a> or pass any other information to @MerPolCC or 101.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie-Lou Berry was reported missing on Friday Katie-Lou Berry was reported missing on Friday(Image: Merseyside Police) An urgent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[279,748,393,20965,4884,2465,10008,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-951292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-farnworth","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-missing-people","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116552549810162423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951292","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=951292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}