SOON after Carly was born, doctors discovered that she had total allergy -- was allergic to everything.

The only thing she could consume was breast milk, and an appeal was made which resulted in women from across the North-west donating milk for Carly. Eventually she was able to return to a normal diet.

However, aged four she contracted salmonella, and it was shortly after recovering from this that Carly was diagnosed as an insulin dependent diabetic who required a highly specialised diet and regular doses of insulin.

Before her parents' divorce Carly and her family lived in Cope BanK, Smithills and she attended Church Road County Primary School.

She went on to Smithills High School and halfway through moved to Hayward Secondary School in Great Lever.

Her mother remarried and moved to South Yorkshire, taking Carly with her but the teenager kept running away.

She was reported missing several times from Doncaster and was believed to have come back to the Bolton area.