Mother of missing girl, 14, last seen ten days ago say she is 'frightened' for her safety

The mother of a missing girl who disappeared ten days ago says she is ‘frightened’ for her daughter’s safety.

Katelan Coates was last seen on May 26 after her mum Tina said she went to the fair with her friends in Todmorden, in West Yorkshire. There have been no official sightings of her since she was spotted on CCTV the next day in Preston.

The 14-year-old had left Todmorden bus station at 6.05pm on Friday evening on a bus to Burnley. She was seen arriving at Burnley bus station at 6.53pm and then on Fishergate in Preston the next day. It was previously suggested she might have been travelling to Manchester.

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Mum Tina said there had been a 'possible sighting' of Katelan since and urged the public to 'look around buses and bus stations', reports Lancashire Live.

In a statement today, the desperate mum said: "10 days since Katelan Coates vanished, 9 since anyone officially saw her. Please please think if you've seen her. 999 log 1971 26/5 so frightened for her safety."

Tina has previously appealed for Katelan to come home and said that the pain of her daughter being missing is 'horrendous.'

She said: "A week since you went to the fair to hang out with your friends. Then didn't come home, what has happened at the fair?

"Please message if you have any information about this, it would at least help to understand why she went away. We know you had difficulties with school, we know certain people liked making your life a misery in our town, that your hard shell was simply a way of protecting yourself.

"We know our once happy little girl has changed in the last year and you were struggling. The pain and worry was horrendous a week ago and gradually becoming