A child prodigy who fled Oxford University blaming her parents for putting too much pressure on her, has found new happiness.

Sufiah Yusof, who won a place at St Hilda's College to study mathematics when she was just 13, married a trainee lawyer at the weekend.

She and Jonathan Marshall, 24, a student at Keble College, had a civil ceremony at the Register Office in Oxford on Saturday (July 10) and celebrated afterwards with family and friends at Headington Hill Hall, Headington.

Mr Marshall, who met Miss Yusof, now 19, at a Law Society function more than a year ago, left the reception briefly to tell the Oxford Mail: "We met while we were both studying and we are very happy.

"We are moving to London where I shall be working and Sufiah will study Arabic languages at London University."

Miss Yusof was 15 when she disappeared from St Hilda's College in 2000, the day after her third-year exams.

Her disappearance led to widespread publicity, including emotional appeals from her parents and a nationwide hunt.

Police found her at an Internet caf in Bournemouth where she had found work in an hotel, but she refused to return to her parents and was taken into care by a foster family.

She returned to Oxford in October 2002, but failed to complete her studies and did not get a degree. Instead she has been working as an administrative assistant for a construction company, while her fiance completed a legal practice course.

Mr Marshall confirmed he had converted to the Muslim faith in April, 2003, and that the couple had been living together in Oxford since they were married in a Muslim ceremony last week.

He said the marriage celebrations cemented a reconciliation between his bride and her family, and the couple had the blessing of both sets of parents.

Miss Yusof's parents gave up their jobs as freelance researchers to educate their five children at home.

She was 13 when she began her degree, matching the record of Ruth Lawrence, the maths genius from Huddersfield who began university in 1984 and became Oxford's youngest graduate.