Runaway 'bride' returning home

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.

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