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  • 标题:Teen 'bride' is reunited with family
  • 作者:LESLEY RICHARDSON
  • 期刊名称:Sunday Mirror
  • 印刷版ISSN:0956-8077
  • 出版年度:2002
  • 卷号:Dec 15, 2002
  • 出版社:Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd.

Teen 'bride' is reunited with family

LESLEY RICHARDSON

THE 14-year-old girl who eloped with a Turkish barman has agreed to return to Britain with her father.

Rachel Lloyd was travelling to Istanbul last night with her father Bob and her older sister Beckie.

The runaway, who was found after our sister paper the Daily Mirror highlighted the case, was reunited with her family in Gazi Antep in Eastern Turkey on Thursday. A Foreign Office spokesman said that Turkish social services were taking care of Rachel while her boyfriend Mehmet Ocack, 24, who is already married to another woman, was being detained by Turkish police.

Rachel was reported missing on December 3.

She first met Ocack in May while on holiday in the resort of Marmaris with Beckie, 16, and her grandmother Carol Lloyd, 60, who she lives with in Wrexham, north-east Wales.

When she returned to the UK she refused to go to school and pined for Ocack. She returned to Marmaris in October with her grandmother.

But at the airport returning home, Rachel refused to board the plane and took a taxi back to Marmaris.

A day later British Consulate officials became involved and sent her home.

Her grandmother was reported as having encouraged the relation- ship despite warnings from Social Services, and reportedly even spoke of buying a bar for the couple to run.

Rachel's mother Karen Thomas, 40, who refers to Ocack by his nickname Steve, admitted that she and her daughter needed "help" from social services.

Mrs Thomas, from Wrexham, who is divorced from Mr Lloyd, added: "We're talking to social services to get some help for her because she is so mixed up.

"She needs help, I need help, we all need help."

Social Services and the Education Department are to meet next week to discuss the future care needs of Rachel, Wrexham Social Services said yesterday.

A spokeswoman said: "We will be looking at her long-term future care and the matter of her welfare when she comes back to the UK.

"Her welfare and well-being is of paramount importance to us."

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