Sorrow over tragic bridge plunge girls

Oct 9 2009 by Edwin Lawrence

AYRSHIRE is this week sharing the grief over the two girls who plunged to their deaths from the Erskine Bridge.

For the dad of the younger girl, Georgia Rowe, 14, lives in Mauchline.

And friends have rallied round Clark Rowe, 58, and other family members in Muirkirk and Sorn.

Clark is a member of the Muirkirk family known for a successful coach company.

And he has run his T&M Cars taxi/car hire firm in Mauchline for around five years.

Georgia leapt to her death on Sunday night with pal Neve Lafferty, 15.

Georgia had been taken into care by Hull City Council social services.

But she was transferred to the Good Shepherd care home at Bishopton, to be closer to Scottish relatives.

Georgia had also been a pupil of Notre Dame Secondary School for Girls in Glasgow.

Dozens of tributes were left to both girls on social networking websites.

One friend said she would never forget Georgia’s ‘wee cheeky smile and beautiful wee face’.

Another hinted at a fall-out with another girl, and asked why she was on the run.

For Georgia had gone missing from the home, days earlier.

And in a Bebo message to a friend, four days before her death, troubled Georgia wrote: “Everybody is arguing with me. Am on the run.”

Last month, she sent this message to older brother Billy, who lives in Canada: “Am not bad. Just trying to make a fresh start.”