Chloe Ellis, 14, from Livingston, Scotland, vanished on Thursday, January 23 – and was last seen in a red weather alert area before Storm Éowyn battered the country
A major search has been launched for a 14-year-old girl who last seen in a red weather alert area before Storm Éowyn battered the UK.
Police are searching for Chloe Ellis, from Livingston, Scotland, who vanished on Thursday, January 23. She was last seen at around 8.25am in the Deans area of the West Lothian town. Chloe is described as being 5ft5 inches tall with long brown hair, and was dressed in a black leather jacket when she went missing.
An urgent appeal for information has been launched due to concern for her welfare, Edinburgh Live reports. Police Scotland Sergeant John Watson said: “We are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of Chloe and would ask if anyone who knows her whereabouts to get in contact with us.
“She is known to frequent Glasgow, Edinburgh, Livingston and Bathgate. She may have travelled to the Dunbar area.” Anyone with information on Chloe is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 0949 of 23 January, 2025.
It comes after a 49-year-old man was killed in Irvine, Scotland, by “falling roof tiles” knocked over by the brutal gale force winds of Storm Éowyn. A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 10.10am on Friday, 24 January, 2025, we were called to a report of an unresponsive man in East Road, Irvine. Emergency services attended and a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His family is aware.”
“The death is being treated as unexplained but it is not believed to be suspicious. A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.”
In Ireland, a 20-year-old man was tragically killed after a tree fell on his car while he tried to drive away from Storm Éowyn’s “historic winds”. Kacper Dudek was carrying out a U-turn in Donegal after coming across a road accident moments earlier when the storm uprooted a tree – and crushed his car, according to police.
Authorities confirmed the identity of the victim, who was born in Poland but raised in Lifford, Donegal, on Saturday morning as an investigation into the fatal road traffic accident continues. The body of the young man has been removed from the scene of the accident at Feddyglass, Raphoe, Donegal to the mortuary in Letterkenny University Hospital, where a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.