Missing girl 'spotted at airport'

Lilly has been missing for a month

Police are investigating about 20 possible sightings of a missing 13-year-old girl.

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

There have been reported sightings of her in Manchester and police fear she may have been forced into prostitution.

One of the sightings being followed up by police was on a flight from Manchester Airport to Rhodes at the weekend.

Detective Inspector Chris Wilde of Lancashire Police, said: "A pilot was flying to Rhodes on Saturday and he had to eject a girl from his plane because she was so upset and scared about flying.

Asian men

"He tried to calm her down for 20 minutes and couldn't do, and left her behind."

The other people travelling with the girl continued their journey to Rhodes.

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

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.