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Mum's fears for missing teenager

A WORRIED Shipston mum is appealing to the public to look out for her teenage daughter who discharged herself from psychiatric hospital on Monday.

Jean Aird, of Oldbutt Road, Shipston wants to know that her "vulnerable" 18-year-old daughter Jenny is safe.

"If anybody sees her and she seems distressed please contact the police," said Jean yesterday.

She also appealed through the Journal to her daughter. "If Jenny reads this I want her to know that I'm here if she needs me."

Former Chipping Campden School pupil Jenny was picked up at a house in Leamington on Monday following a police appeal for information about her whereabouts when she went missing from St Michael's psychiatric hospital in Warwick on Saturday, January 30.

Within hours of being re-admitted, she discharged herself against the advice of doctors.

Mum, Jean, 54, believes she is back living semi-rough in Leamington and is penniless.

Jean, a medical secretary, said: "She has suffered from depression and psychosis for four years and has been at St Michael's after being sectioned just before Christmas.

"She's not bad enough to be sectioned now but it doesn't stop you worrying at all."

Before being admitted to hospital Jenny had been living in supported housing in Stratford and initially police thought she may have tried to return to the town to see friends.

"She is very vulnerable because of her mental problems," said Jean, whose concerns are shared by Jenny's grandmother, Ivy Lyall, who lives in Hanson Avenue, Shipston.