New sightings of missing girl

Lilly has been seen in Manchester with two men

Police searching for a girl missing from her Lancashire home who may have been forced into prostitution are following up new reported sightings of her.

Liliana Brooks, who is known as Lilly, left her home in Dale Close, Parbold, in her school uniform on 3 July and has not been seen since.

Police believe she is in Manchester and on Saturday they were following reported sightings of her in the Moss Side and Longsight areas of the city.

Officers are also following up a report that Lilly was seen with two Asian men a few days after she disappeared.

Lilly was also seen on the day she disappeared in the city's Arndale Centre.

We have to face the unpalatable scenario she is being traded as an adult Chief Inspector Peter White Lancashire Police

The last contact Lilly had with her parents was when she spoke to her father, at about 1500 BST on the day she disappeared, telling him she was outside their house.

On Friday Chief Inspector Peter White, from Lancashire Police, said it was "very worrying" that Lilly's parents have had no contact from their daughter.

"While it may be that she is staying away from home deliberately, we have to consider the very real possibility that she is being forcibly held and used in the sex industry," he said.

"Lilly's family has already said that although only 13, Lilly easily passes for a girl of 18.

"We have to face the unpalatable scenario that she is being traded as an adult and that her 'clients' are unaware of her real age."

Anyone with any information is urged to call police at Skelmersdale.