THE FAMILY of missing Hampshire girl 15-year-old Samantha Horeman have made an emotional plea for the teenager to come home.

Samantha, known to her friends as Sam or Sammy Jo, has now been missing a week.

Her mum Lisa, 33, told the Daily Echo: "I'm not angry with her any more. I just want her to come home.

"I will always love her very, very much."

She added: "Her sisters and brother have done nothing but cry. They keep asking me when she's coming home.

"I don't want to know what you're up to, Sam - just come home."

Samantha's sisters Katie, eight, and Lucy, six, and her brother Ross, three, are all heartbroken because Samantha helps Lisa, who is deaf, look after them.

Katie said: "She's like a mum to me. Please, Sam, just come home. I'm worried about you."

Samantha was last seen at her home in Millers Pond, Sholing, Southampton, when she returned from a night out with friends at 10.20pm last Sunday.

Lisa and her partner Patrick Dean, 40, said she had spent a happy day out with the family and there had been no argument.

Lisa realised Samantha was missing when she got up on Monday morning.

Samantha, who has just started studying childcare and sign language at Southampton City College, has gone off before but just for two days and her family knew she was with friends.

But this time Lisa has tried contacting all Samantha's friends and no one has seen her.

Lisa said: "We'd spent a nice day together on the Sunday. Nobody knows why she's run off.

"Obviously she's got her reasons but we're past being angry now. We just need to know she's safe."

When last seen, Samantha was wearing dark blue jeans with lace down the sides of the legs, a pink top and black leather space boots. She is believed to have taken a gold top and black trousers with her.

Samantha is 5ft 3in with brown eyes, long brown hair with highlights and a tanned complexion.

Anyone with information about her whereabouts is urged to contact Bitterne Police on 0845 045 4545.