Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the state\u2019s Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lailah Russell, aged 13, was last seen in Newcastle about 6pm yesterday (Thursday 16 October 2025). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When she could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are serious concerns for Lailah\u2019s welfare due to her young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lailah is described as being of Caucasian appearance, 160cm, thin build with long light brown hair<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was last seen wearing a black hooded jumper, black shorts and white sneakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lailah is known to frequent the Newcastle, Muswellbrook and Singleton areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone with information into her whereabouts is urged to contact Newcastle City Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the state\u2019s Hunter region. Lailah Russell, aged 13, was last seen in Newcastle about 6pm yesterday (Thursday 16 October 2025). When she could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her … Continue reading “Appeal to locate teenage girl missing from Newcastle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35436,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435\/revisions\/35436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}