THREE Gwent parents say they are being torn apart wondering where their missing children are.

The last time Nicola and Malcolm Cheshire saw their 14-year-old son Liam, of Hanbury Road, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, was when she dropped him off at West Mon School at around 8.15am on Tuesday.

Nicola, 34, said: "I dropped Liam off at school and the last thing he said was, 'see you later'.

"There was nothing out of the ordinary that morning. When he didn't come home I called the police at about 10pm."

Police believe that Liam came home from school as usual that day, and went out again at around 5pm and never returned home.

Liam regularly goes missing and skipped school on Monday, but has never been gone this long, his mother said.

He did return home to change his clothes, taking his 11-year-old brother Ieuan's bike, a blue rally Pro-star mountain bike.

Describing the past four days, Nicola said: "I can't sleep, I can't eat. I just keep thinking, is he alone, where is he?"

Their message to Liam is: "Please come home, we miss you, we love you. Please contact us or someone to let us know you are OK."

Liam is described as about five feet four inches tall, of medium build, with short, mousey-coloured hair and brown eyes.

He was last seen wearing grey tracksuit bottoms with a yellow stripe down the side, a Henry Lloyd black coat and Nike trainers.

Gwent Police are appealing to anyone who has any information about Liam's disappearance to get in touch with Pontypool Police on 01495 764711.

Meanwhile, Abergavenny father Philip Kerton has pleaded for anyone who knows about his daughter Louise's disappearance to put his family "out of our misery".

Mr Kerton made the emotional appeal on her 25th birthday yesterday.

Louise had been staying with her fianc, Peter Simon, and his mother, Ramana, at a village near Euskirchen, in Germany, before she vanished.

She was last seen at Aachen station in Germany on July 30 last year.

Despite searches by police in Germany, and by her family, who have travelled to Aachen several times, Louise, who was a school friend of Lucie Blackman, the bar hostess murdered in Japan, has still not been found.

Yesterday, Mr Kerton, who now lives in Kent, said: "We have been expecting the worst for some months now. The trouble is there is nothing certain."

To anyone who knows what happened to his daughter, he said: "For God's sake, put us out of our misery, that's what I would say to them."