Police officer's girl on run with criminal

The 15-year-old daughter of a Metropolitan police officer is on the run today with a convicted criminal who jumped bail before he was sentenced.

Schoolgirl Hannah Machin has been missing with her boyfriend Steven Leicester, 29, for the past five days.

Leicester, who has previous convictions for death by dangerous driving, burglary and theft, was due to be sentenced at Luton Crown Court for threatening to kill Hannah's father, David, abducting her and harassing her mother and sister.

But the judge adjourned the case and Leicester went to Hannah's home in Stevenage and vanished with her.

Hannah had been going out with Leicester, from Stanmore, for eight months. Because she is under 16 her parents reported Leicester's actions to police accusing him of abducting her.

Leicester appeared in court before Christmas and pleaded guilty to the three offences but is believed to have breached his bail conditions by seeing Hannah.