Missing girls found after spending night locked in train
Girls found ‘cold, tired and scared’ in small Scottish town
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Your support makes all the difference.Two missing 12-year-old girls were found “cold, tired and scared” after being locked inside a train overnight in a small Scottish town.
Amy Greenan and her friend were spotted waving and banging on the carriage windows by a passing teenager in Helensburgh and were freed around a day after being reported missing to police.
Amy’s mother, Bonnie-Louise, said that she spent “the worst 24 hours of my life as a parent” after her daughter disappeared.
“The police have called and found Amy and her friend safe and well (cold, tired and scared). They had been locked on the train overnight till the conductor opened up this morning to find them,” she wrote on Facebook.
“I would never wish any parent or child to go through that ordeal. Safe to say it was the worst 24 hours of my life as a parent.”
According to Ms Greenan, her daughter and friend were playing at a park near Balloch Station in West Dunbartonshire on Friday evening when they decided to board a train to Glasgow without tickets.
The girls later said that they intended to catch another train right back to Balloch, but were found by station staff without tickets and told to go away.
They instead snuck onto a train that passed through nearby Dumbarton but fell asleep and woke up trapped inside the train at Helensburgh Central Station, around eight miles from home, Ms Greenan wrote on Facebook.
Both girls had mobile phones but the batteries were flat.
Station staff brought the girls food and released them after they were spotted by a teenager. Police contacted Ms Greenan to tell her that her daughter had been found after she spent a sleepless night looking for her.
Ms Greenan says her daughter was not hiding.
“I’d like to know where on earth on a train there is to hide if [station staff are] supposed to check under every table, seat and toilet?” she wrote.
ScotRail say they are assisting British Transport Police with an investigation into the incident.
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