Police in the UK and the US are attempting to locate a teenage girl who flew from New York to London this weekend after apparently being in contact with an older man.
According to New York police, 16-year-old Victoria Grabowski, from Queens, boarded a flight from John F Kennedy Airport on Saturday and arrived in the UK on Monday morning.
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