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Splash Southampton’s community newspaper
PLEASE COME HOME JADE
Frantic family’s plea to girl, 15, who left for school on Tuesday and has only been heard from on Facebook since
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Friday November 11, 2011
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MISSING: Jade with baby brother Davey
By CATHERINE COLLINS THE family of a 15 year old girl who went missing from her home in Southampton on Tuesday has made an emotional plea for her to return home. Jade Marie Hounsome who lives with her father and grandmother in Blackfield, first went missing with her boyfriend, also 15, on Saturday. The police found them at his father’s house in Bournemouth on Monday and Jade returned home. Jade left for school on Tuesday morning but did not arrive and her family and the police have been trying to find her ever since. Jade is described as being 5ft 5in with shoulder length dark hair, although she has been known to dye it. It later transpired that Jade had taken a limited amount of clothes and cash with her.
Jade suffers from eczema and asthma and her family are concerned that her inhaler will run out soon. The Hardley School pupil, who has four brothers and a sister, spends weekends and holidays with her mother and stepfather. A Facebook page has been set up to help to find Jade and is growing in size by the day with over 400 members. Her stepfather Russel wrote: “It’s hard to hear Jade’s Mum cry when she has done nothing to deserve this, with your help we hope we can be a family again.” Since the page was set up Jade has been in contact to say she is safe but refuses to go home or say where she is. Her mother Nicola wrote: “She is online somewhere so at least I know she is alive, but not knowing where she is, I can’t say she is safe.”
‘It’s hard to hear Jade’s mum cry’