Mum appeals for missing teenage daughter to come home

May 19 2009 By Sam Casey

A DESPERATE mum has pleaded with her troubled teenage daughter: "Please come home."

Shelbie Greenwood, 14, ran away from her home on Sunny Mead in Waterloo eight days ago.

A police hunt has been launched for her and family and friends are constantly on the look-out.

There have been sightings of her in Brighouse.

But, despite being in contact with mum Hayley twice by phone, Shelbie has so far refused to return home.

In a direct plea to her daughter, Hayley, 34, said: "Please just come home."

She added: "The last week has been awful.

"Her little brother, Ryan, who’s seven, is missing her like mad.

"I’ve tried to keep as much of it from him as possible, but he knows Shelbie isn’t here and he doesn’t know why."

Shelbie is meant to attend the Ethos Pupil Referral Unit in Rawthorpe after being taken out of Almondbury High School for behavioural problems.

Hayley said her daughter had her fair share of problems and had started having "normal teenage arguments" with her.

But she said there had not been a specific incident to cause her to run away.

Shelbie called Hayley on Saturday after being told there had been an appeal on local television news.

The teenager said she was coming home but did not turn up and called again on Sunday to say she was in Halifax.