Disturbing claims emerge from former buddy of couple who had been the ultimate to look lacking youngster Pheobe Bishop – as new footage expose the essential forensic clues police are gathering

A former buddy of the ultimate other people to look lacking teen Pheobe Bishop prior to she disappeared has published why she just lately bring to a halt touch with the couple. 

The 17-year-old was once ultimate noticed leaving a house in Gin Gin, Bundaberg, the place she have been dwelling with couple Tanika Bromley and James Wood, on May 15. 

Detectives consider the pair drove Pheobe the 40 mins to Bundaberg Airport the place she was once meant to board an 8.30am flight to Brisbane after which onto Perth the place she deliberate to catch up with her boyfriend.

Questions stay over precisely why she was once dwelling on the area with the pair, however ultimate posts she made to social media prior to she disappeared recommended the stricken youngster had fallen out together with her mom and would now not go back house.

A lady who lives close to the couple and has recognized Mr Wood since adolescence instructed Daily Mail Australia she stopped chatting with him as a result of she did not like how he was once allegedly treating his canine. 

The girl mentioned she additionally turned into pleasant with Ms Bromley till she was once as soon as within the automobile together with her and allegedly ‘reached below the seat and pulled out a [sawn off] shot gun’ which have been saved there.

‘She simply laughed and mentioned ”do not fret about it babe it is for self-protection”. I did not communicate to her a lot after that. It was once a couple of months in the past.’

The pair had been puzzled through police and had been launched. No fees had been laid over Pheobe’s disappearance and Daily Mail Australia does now not recommend Mr Wood and Ms Bromley had been concerned.

An officer is pictured wearing brown paper proof baggage at Good Night Scrub Park on Saturday as investigations into the lacking 17-year-old proceed

SES staff seek the Good Night Scrub National Park on Saturday 

Tanika Bromley and James Wood (pictured) the place {the teenager}’s housemates 

The girl mentioned James wasn’t the ‘quiet and shy’ boy she knew from years in the past.  

‘He was once house schooled through his oldsters. He used to reside in that bus that is out the entrance of his area,’ she mentioned. 

‘I ended speaking to him as a result of I used to be anxious about how he was once treating his canine.’

The dilapidated single-decker bus, emblazoned with the phrases ‘Let it trip’ was once searched through forensics on Friday. 

Daily Mail Australia in the past published Mr Woods is divorced and handiest moved to Gin Gin from Emerald, 500km west in Queensland’s Central Highlands, round six months in the past after the tip of his marriage.

Ms Bromley is known to be a Gin Gin native and a mom of 2. The couple are believed to have moved in in combination previous this 12 months.

An replace from police on Friday mentioned they’d proceed to look the broader Gin Gin and Bundaberg spaces, and ‘no person is in custody in terms of this investigation’. 

‘Police are interesting to the general public for info, together with any motion within the Good Night Scrub space on May 15, in particular within the Mingo Road and Gayndah Road spaces,’ the replace learn. 

Mr Woods bus and boat out of doors the Gin Gin belongings the place Phoebe have been staying

Officers returned to the bushland on Saturday after seizing an merchandise of doable hobby on Friday

An officer is pictured wearing one in every of a number of plastic baggage with pattern jars stuffed with soil 

The seek heated up on Saturday with further groups of police becoming a member of the trouble

The seek resumed on Saturday morning with a cry of Heigh-Ho, off we pass, as about 40 SES volunteers entered thick bushland within the Good Night Scrub National Park. 

Daily Mail Australia can expose a drone professional from Queensland Fire and Rescue is being deployed above the world to help the seek for the lacking youngster. 

It might be centered at the river.

Specialist police had been pictured on the lookout for the lacking youngster at Good Night Scrub Park on Saturday about an hour’s power from the airport as a part of ongoing seek efforts involving murder detectives and divers. 

Investigators returned to the nationwide park on Saturday after finding an merchandise of doable hobby within the space on Friday evening. They didn’t state whether or not the thing was once attached to Pheobe.

On Saturday, investigators had been pictured wearing forensic coveralls supplied with sifters and packing containers stuffed with soil. 

An officer may well be noticed laying out a brown paper bag waste bag whilst others carried baggage stuffed with pattern jars stuffed with blue liquid. 

Queensland Police senior constable Matthew Baker instructed newshounds the quest of the nationwide phase was once ‘the most important’ to the full investigation.  

Pheobe (proper) is pictured along her mom Kylie Johnson. Her circle of relatives mentioned the 17-year-old loves ‘past comprehension and is unswerving to her siblings’

Daily Mail Australia can expose a drone specialist was once introduced in to help with the quest

An officer is pictured sitting throughout from an investigator wearing forensic coveralls on Saturday. The nationwide park is situated about an hour’s power from Bundaberg Airport

Police mentioned they had been depending closely on leads from the general public to resolve Pheobe’s disappearance, encouraging somebody with knowledge ‘giant or small’ to come back ahead. 

Pheobe’s circle of relatives launched a commentary on Saturday wherein they described her as strong-willed and any individual who adopted her personal beat and cherished tune.

‘I’ve at all times known as her my ‘wild gypsy banshee’,’ the commentary mentioned.

‘You cannot tame Phee’s spirit, empathy or battle for lifestyles. She is sassy, feisty and loves tougher than somebody I’ve ever (met).

‘Phee loves past comprehension and is unswerving to her siblings.’ 

Among the volunteers is Gin Gin resident Midge, who has labored with the SES since 2011. She may well be heard calling directions during the bushes to her group.

‘It’s going to be onerous going nowadays. It’s simply going to be thick scrub. We have no idea what we are searching for, simply anything else misplaced,’ she instructed Daily Mail Australia. 

Pheobe Bishop’s circle of relatives have appealed for somebody with details about her disappearance to name police (this picture was once shared through Queensland Police on Saturday)

Meanwhile, Pheobe’s distraught mom Kylie Johnson and different members of the family have papered town with lacking posters.

‘Phee remains to be lacking [and] our heartache and ache is uncooked and actual,’ she mentioned nowadays. ‘We as a circle of relatives are looking to hold onto the sunshine of lifestyles this is our free-spirited soul gypsy this is Phee Phee.

‘Phee, we want you house, we want to listen your sassy voice and really feel your hugs.’