article_snippet.sent: The jury was told today how The jury allegedly rang police anonymously less than a fortnight before Paige went missing to tell officers that a 'problem child' had turned up on The jury doorstep having been thrown out by her father.
article_snippet.sent: Brian Cummings QC, prosecuting, told jurors that the Crown Prosecution Service believes The jury did so to 'test the water'.
article_snippet.sent: The jury told Preston Crown Court: 'We allege that The jury wanted to see what official reaction there would be to the suggestion of a 15-year-old girl turning up on the doorstep of a 52-year-old man and the answer
article_snippet.sent: The jury learned, We suggest, was very little reaction.'
article_snippet.sent: The court heard that her father reported her father missing on August 26 and clearly stated her father was 15, but her father date of birth was wrongly entered on the police system as 1962. '
article_snippet.sent: That approach was not corrected until September 7 when police inquiries then commenced, Mr Cummings added.