Police trace missing 14-year-old boy ‘safe and well’

Teenager traced safe and well in Kirkcaldy after going missing on Wednesday.

Police trace missing 14-year-old boy ‘safe and well’Police Scotland
Jack Thomson

A 14-year-old boy who had been missing from his home in Fife has been found ‘safe and well’.

Police had been searching for the teenager after he disappeared from Kirkcaldy on Wednesday morning.

An update from officers thanked the public for sharing their appeal and confirmed the schoolboy had been found in Kirkcaldy.

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