Footage of car ‘central’ to investigation of missing Gin Gin teen emerges

Footage of the vehicle missing teenager Pheobe Bishop was reportedly travelling in before her suspicious disappearance has emerged online. A video posted online shows a grey Hyundai ix35 – the same car model police allege Ms Bishop travelled in on the day of her disappearance – driving along a backstreet of Gin Gin. The CCTV footage is timestapped 10.30am May 15 – two hours after Pheobe was alleged to have been dropped to Bundaberg Airport to fly to Brisbane. The video has since been deleted by the original poster. Since Mr Bishop’s disappearance, police have seized a grey Hyundai ix35 with Queensland registration 414EW3, and declared it an active crime scene. Police have regularly appealed to the public for dashcam and CCTV footage of the vehicle near the Airport Drive and Samuels Road area in Bundaberg and also the Gin Gin area on May 15. The clue comes as the Gin Gin community rallies together in a display of hope for Ms Bishop’s safe return, as the search for the missing teen enters its tenth day. Comments posted on Ms Bishop’s mother Kylie Johnson Facebook show members of the Gin Gin community leaving their front door lights, to “guide Pheobe home”. “May our shining lights, light up your path Phoebe,” one commenter posted with a picture of an illuminated front porch. “I’m praying that the lights of Gin Gin and the world guide you back to me, guide you back us, guide you back to your siblings and our family. Our lives and existence is nothing without you in our lives,” Ms Johnson wrote. “We just need to know where you are and if your safe.” Police are continuing the search for Ms Bishop in bushland and waterways in the Good Night Scrub National Park. The operation, which has involved members of the dive squad, has not yet located any items of interest according to the latest update from police. Police have appealed to the public for information, including any movement in the Good Night Scrub area on May 15, particularly in the Mingo Road and Gayndah Road areas.

Footage of car ‘central’ to investigation of missing Gin Gin teen emerges

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