Jenna returns safe and well

Missing girl back with her family after nearly two weeks

Jenna Bashir has been reunited with her family this afternoon and is reported to be safe and well.

Earlier in the day she has a meeting with one member of her family and following that she returned home.

Jenna, who is a pupil at Elthorne Park school in Ealing, had been missing from her home address in Wellesley Road area of Chiswick since 5th July, when she left the address stating she was going to a friend’s house. She failed to return home.

Her disappearance came at the same time as the case of Shevaun Pennington who was lured away from home by someone she met through the internet. After Jenna went missing her father Mohamed Bashir found pictures of her on a website. She had posted them on the internet along with personal details, giving a false age of 17.

July 18, 2003

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