MISSING Jenny Nicholl would not have used the language in the text messages sent from her phone following her disappearance, her mother said.

Ann Nicholl was asked about the content of texts that were received by two of her daughter's friends and the teenager's father in the days after she vanished.

The messages to friends Jennifer Whelan and Nicola Gosnold were sent from east Cumbria on July 9 - nine days after Jenny was last seen alive by her mother.

Five days later, Jenny's father, Brian, received a message on his mobile sent from the 19-year-old's Nokia phone, in Jedburgh, in the Scottish borders, the jury heard.

It is alleged that David Hodgson travelled to the locations to use his lover's phone - which has never been found - to create the impression she was still alive.

Yesterday, Mrs Nicholl disputed the content of some of the messages and said some of the terms used in the texts were not words in her daughter's vocabulary.

In the text message to Mr Nicholl, the author says: "Why do you hate me? I know mum does . . . I am happy living up here . . . Everyone hates me in Rich."

Asked by James Goss, QC, prosecuting if Jenny ever complained that she hated her, Mrs Nicholl replied: "Absolutely not .

. . she never used that terminology."

The message also says that Jenny told her mother she was leaving, but Mrs Nicholl said: "She never said anything like that to me. She never used those words."

She added: "She was loved, very looked-after.

"I would have done my utmost - if she told me she was unhappy and wanted to leave home - to resolve it.

"That's just pure fabrication in those text messages."

Texts were sent from Jenny's mobile phone after she disappeared Messages were sent from Cumbria and the Scottish borders David Hodgson accused of sending the texts in an attempt to create the false impression Jenny was still alive.