‘I went missing 50 times as a teen – this is what stopped me’

Jade Knight has been able to rebuild her life (Picture: Supplied)

Sat alone in a field, Jade Knight felt like she could breathe for the first time in years – but everybody who loved her felt the exact opposite. 

With little more than a book or two housed inside a pink floral bag, Jade had run away for the first time. She was around five miles away from the hospital where she was being treated for serious side effects from her type 1 diabetes.

Nobody knew where she was and that’s what Jade, then 15, wanted.