Police are appealing for information about a 14-year-old New Malden who has been missing since she left her home yesterday morning.

Jessica Lyn McGareth, of Beaconsfield Road, left her house at 8.25am for Coombe Girls School but never arrived and has not been since.

Jessica, who is also known as Kandaline and Candy, is described as mixed race with light brown skin and dark shoulder-length straight hair, is 5ft 10ins tall and is of average build. She is half-Jamaican but speaks with a London accent.

She sometimes wears oval glasses with dark frames and was last seen wearing a white, three-quarter length coat, blue jeans and pink high-heeled shoes and was carrying a long, blak strap bag.

Jessica, who was not carrying any money with her, has many friends in the Kingston area as well as in Southport.

Anyone with any information should call Kingston CID on 020 8247 5131 or Crimestoppers anonynously on 020 8247 5131.

May 1, 2003 11:00