POIGNANT song lyrics capturing despair written by missing teenager Shafilea Ahmed were revealed today (Thursday, December 4).

They were read out by Coronation Street star Shobna Gulati, who plays shop assistant Sunita, as police renewed efforts to find the student they now fear is dead.

Shafilea,17, was last seen near her Great Sankey home on September 11.

The A-level student, who planned a career in law, recently returned from a trip to Pakistan where she drank bleach in protest at the prospect of an arranged marriage.

The trip is mentioned in her poems, she wrote: "It was my last year in school, so happy with my friends.

"But came this day when everything changed, I came home it seemed like a normal day

"But sumthing wasn't right, I wish I coulda changed the event, I shoulda killed myself instead. I'd rather have been dead."

They cannot rule out the possibility that her disappearance is linked to her refusal to agree to an arranged marriage whilst in Pakistan.

In her songs she describes the pressure of meeting her family's expectations.

She said: "All they think about is honour. I was like a normal teenage kid, didn't ask 2 much. I jus wanted to fit in. But my culture was different. "

Specially trained officers have been studying the bundles of papers found the room Shafilea shared with her 15-year-old sister at the family home on Liverpool Road.

They have boxes of personal items, including dozens of scraps of A4 paper covered in scribbles and song lyrics which reveal the depths of her depression and feelings of being trapped.

Like many young second generation Asians living in Britain, Shafilea led a double existence.

Det Chief Insp Geraint Jones said: "It is not uncommon in South Asia for young Asian women to swallow bleach to make themselves unfit for marriage.

"It is highly likely she has been the victim of crime and we are focusing on open areas in Warrington where a body might be concealed.

"She did not keep a diary but we have found lots of scribblings on pieces of A4 paper."