Laura Stainforth 15, was ‘groomed’ for six months by Robert Williams, 49

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http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/oo35/Special2bme/Groom_468226a.jpgA MISSING teenage girl, feared to be abroad with a man three times her age, was “groomed” through an internet chatroom for almost six months, police revealed last night.

Detectives believe that Laura Stainforth, 15, from Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, has run away with Robert Williams, 49, after arranging to meet him through a website.

Laura and Williams were captured on CCTV footage at Grimsby railway station last Wednesday. The girl was then spotted by a member of the public in Dover the following day.

Humberside police have contacted shipping firms, and Interpol is also helping.

Laura’s parents, Robert and Debra, fear the GCSE student may have travelled overseas with Williams, who is known to use the alias Dave Ingram.

He has befriended dozens of girls using the Facebook social networking website.

Detective Inspector Martin Steel, from Humberside police, said: “We are extremely concerned. We know Laura has been communicating with this man in an internet chatroom for some months and we want to know what his motives are.”

Laura was last seen by her parents at 3.30pm on Wednesday when she left home to visit the shops. They contacted police at 9.20pm after she failed to return.

Police recovered CCTV images taken at 5pm the same day showing Laura with Williams at the rail ticket office and then on the platform. Officers believe they took a train to Doncaster, South Yorkshire, before travelling to London.

Detective chief inspector Sharon Fielding, who is leading the investigation, said: “The last positive sighting we have is in Dover and we are urging anyone who has seen Laura to contact us. We are making checks with ferry companies in Dover and around the country.”

Laura’s parents were too upset to comment. Chrissie Williams, an aunt who lives in Bath, wrote an appeal on a website, calling on Laura to get in touch to tell them she was safe.

Parents at Laura’s school had been warned of an older man trying to make contact with girls using the MSN internet instant messenger service shortly before Christmas.

Williams is listed as a “friend” of Laura on Facebook.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5537248.ece

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CCTV shows Laura and Mr Williams on the Pride of Kent ferry, which set sail from Dover at about 1700 GMT.

Detectives said they were also following up many unconfirmed sightings in different areas of the UK and France.

Her parents Debra and Robert have appealed for their daughter to get in touch.

They said: "Please contact us as we miss you. You are not in trouble.

"We just want to be able to see you and hug you and try and help you. And your brother misses you too.

"Please contact us or the police, or please let us know you are well and safe."

[...]

"At this time we have conflicting information about where she is and I am keeping an open mind as to her location.

"Although we know she was in Dover and she was on that ferry, we do not know if she stayed in Calais, travelled further into France or Europe or returned to the UK.

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Laura is described as white, of medium build, with dark brown, shoulder length hair which was tied in a ponytail.

She was last seen wearing a fawn and cream-coloured zip-up jacket and light blue jeans and black trainers.


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His photograph currently at this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/default.stm

Doubt it will stay at the top of the page for long, though. Regret have no idea how to show picture here........

[Nell]

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Pervert Robert Williams.

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Robert Williams, a 49-year-old lorry driver, is alleged to have raped the 16-year-old girl, who cannot be named, late last year.
The disclosure came after Humberside Police repeatedly stated that Mr Williams, who is thought to have eloped last Wednesday with Laura, from Cleethorpes, was not on the sex offenders register.

Laura and Mr Williams, who are thought to have talked online, were captured on CCTV footage at Grimsby railway station last week. It is thought they have travelled abroad.

The alleged other victim and her father, from Sussex, told the Daily Mail that Mr Williams had been arrested on December 6 after being found with her in a hotel room.

It is claimed that after they met online, Mr Williams told her they could run away together to Puerto Rico, Germany or France
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4296011/Missing-schoolgirl-Laura-Stainforth-suspect-on-bail-over-rape-allegation.html

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Pervert Robert Williams.

Fucker!

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Laura Stainforth, the 15-year-old girl who was found in France a week after vanishing from her Lincolnshire home, has returned to the UK.

However, the Cleethorpes schoolgirl is unlikely to return to her home town at this time, police have said.

She attended the British consulate in Lille with Robert Williams, 49, on Wednesday.

Mr Williams appeared before a court in Douai earlier. He is to be held in a French prison until next Tuesday.

Humberside Police said Laura would be interviewed by specially-trained officers before being reunited with her family.



Thank goodness she was found. Hope she'll be alright in the longer run.