A 12-year-old East Ham girl has gone missing on her way home from church.

Newham police are appealing to the public to help find Lisa Ajoku, 12 , who was seen on Monday July 30 getting on a Number 387 bus which was heading towards Barking between 11.15-11.30pm.

She never arrived home.

Earlier she attended the Victorious Pentecostal Assembly (VPA) Church on 21 Thames Road, Barking.

Lisa is 5ft 4ins tall, with brown eyes, black bushy afro hair and is of medium build. She was wearing a dark grey jacket, light grey jogging bottoms, dark grey trainers with black flower pattern on the toes.

PC Sonya Iwakawa from Newham’s Missing Persons Unit urged anyone with information about the teen’s whereabouts to get in touch.

Call the Newham Police Missing Persons Unit on (020) 8217 5728; or Missing People on Freefone

116 000.