The families of three British teenagers thought to have run away to Syria have come together to plead with the girls to come home.
Abase Hussen clutched a teddy bear in a Chelsea FC jersey as he said his family was "completely different now" since his daughter Amira Abase, 15, disappeared along with Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16.
The three girls were last seen on Tuesday morning as they left their homes in East London, telling their families they would be out for the day.
They are believed to have boarded a Turkish Airlines flight at Gatwick, which landed in Istanbul on Tuesday evening, with the intention to cross into Syria and join terror group Islamic State.
Speaking at Scotland Yard, Mr Hussen, 47, said: "We are depressed, and it's very stressful. The message we have for Amira is to get back home. We miss you. We cannot stop crying. Please think twice. Don't go to Syria."
Mr Hussen said Amira's younger brother and sister "cannot stop crying and they are in a difficult situation".
Amira had shown no signs that anything was amiss as she left home on Tuesday morning saying she was going to a wedding, Mr Hussen said.
But she never returned and her worried family reported her missing about midnight on Tuesday.
Kadiza Sultana's older sister Halima Khanom said in a message to her: "Everyone's hurting.
"Find the courage in your heart to contact us and let us know that you're safe and you're ok - that's all we ask."
One of Shamima Begum's sisters fought back tears as she told how her family hoped that the 15-year-old had only gone to "try and talk some sense" into her friend who had already gone to Syria.
Renu Begum, 27, said: "Her family love her more than anybody else in this Earth can. If anybody is telling her that they're going to love her more than us, they're wrong.
"Nobody else can love her more than we do because she's our baby. We just want her home."
Both Ms Begum and Mr Hussen said there was nothing suspicious about the girls' behaviour leading up to their disappearance.
Messages
A tweet sent from Shamima Begum's Twitter account two days earlier, asked a friend already in Syria to follow her so they could start messaging privately.
It is understood Shamima Begum had exchanged messages online with Aqsa Mahmood, a former private school pupil from Glasgow who travelled to Syria to marry a fighter.
Shamima's sister, who spoke while clutching her missing sister's pyjamas, said if anyone tried to persuade the girls to travel to Syria, "it's a really cruel and evil thing to do".
She added: "To convince young children, young girls who are highly intelligent - my little sister is an A-star student - to convince such young girls at that age, who are vulnerable, it's just wrong.
"It's a really evil thing to do. You're breaking up entire families."
In the UK, security services are being accused of not doing enough to prevent the three schoolgirls leaving Britain to try to join militants in Syria.
Former UK faith and communities minister Baroness Warsi says it is an issue authorities are failing to address:
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