Man and woman charged with murder of Pheobe Bishop
A man and a woman have been charged with the murder of missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop.
The 34-year-old man and 33-year-old woman were arrested tonight in the Bundaberg area, Queensland Police said.
They have been charged with one count each of murder and two counts each of interfering with a corpse.
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Pheobe was meant to visit her boyfriend in Western Australia but, according to police, never checked in for her flight or entered the terminal. (Queensland Police)
Pheobe, 17, has not been seen or heard from since May 15.
Police said they had still not located her remains.
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Vigil for Pheobe to follow grim bush discovery
A planned vigil in memory of slain teenager Pheobe Bishop will go ahead after police discovered human remains in national parkland. The find was made in "unforgiving" terrain southwest of Bundaberg, with investigators aiming to also recover the 17-year-old's missing luggage expected to wind up their efforts on Saturday evening. Officers discovered what were believed to be the teenager's remains about 2.30pm on Friday near Goodnight Scrub National Park, some 280km northeast of Brisbane and 9km from an earlier search site. Pheobe's housemates, James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, faced Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday, three weeks to the day after she missed a flight and vanished. Prosecutors allege the pair moved Pheobe's body multiple times. Her local community of Gin Gin has thrown its arms around Pheobe's family, with floral tributes laid outside the property she shared with Wood and Bromley. The community will hold a candlelight vigil at Kolan Community Park between 4pm and 6pm on Sunday. Locals have been asked to wear bright colours and butterflies. A second candlelight vigil will be held at Buss Park in nearby Bundaberg on Monday from 5pm. Well-wishers have left tributes on social media sites advertising the events. "May the love and light of the community surround Pheobe's family and friends during this difficult time, and may her spirit fly free R.I.P. sweet angel," one read on Saturday. Mayor Helen Blackburn told AAP on Friday she believed the Bundaberg community to be a kind and accepting one. "To have this tragedy happen in our region ... it's been very difficult trying to make sense of it," she said. "We now need to come together as a community, support and care for one another as we try to move forward." Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on May 15 after booking a trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend. Police allege Wood and Bromley drove Pheobe close to the airport but no one got out of the car. Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield revealed on Saturday the remains found at Goodnight Scrub were not buried but declined to offer specifics. "They were found in bushland ... coupled with snippets of information and telecommunications data; that's allowed us to find this location," he said. "It's an unforgiving terrain." Insp Mansfield confirmed the missing luggage had not been located. He said forensic searches of a home in Gin Gin had not identified anything significant. The town also rallied around the missing teen's family during the search for her with a Leave the Lights On for Pheobe campaign. Some posted photos online of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Wood and Bromley have been remanded in custody ahead of their next court appearance on August 11.
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Three dead as Russian strikes target eastern Ukraine
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"To put an end to Russia's killing and destruction, more pressure on Moscow is required, as are more steps to strengthen Ukraine," he said. The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday said its forces carried out a night-time strike on Ukrainian military targets, including ammunition depots, drone assembly workshops, and weaponry repair stations. There was no comment from Moscow on the reports of casualties in Kharkiv. Kharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said the strikes also damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes. Terekhov said it was "the most powerful attack" on the city since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Kharkiv's regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said two districts in the city were struck with three missiles, five aerial glide bombs and 48 drones. He said two children, a baby boy and a 14-year-old girl, were among the injured. 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Russian shelling also killed a couple in their 50s in the southern city of Kherson, close to the front lines, local Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported in a Facebook post. Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said its forces shot down 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, over the country's south and west, including near the capital. Drone debris injured two civilians in the suburbs of Moscow, local Governor Andrei Vorobyov reported. On Friday, Russia struck six Ukrainian territories, killing at least six people and injuring about 80. Among the dead were three emergency responders in Kyiv, one person in Lutsk and two people in Chernihiv. A US-led diplomatic push for a settlement has brought two rounds of direct peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine, although the negotiations delivered no significant breakthroughs. The sides remain far apart on their terms for an end to the fighting. 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The intensity of the Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past weeks has further dampened hopes that the warring sides could reach a peace deal anytime soon - especially after Kyiv recently embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprising drone attack on military airfields deep inside Russia. According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia struck with 215 missiles and drones overnight on Saturday, and Ukrainian air defences shot down and neutralised 87 drones and seven missiles. Several other areas in Ukraine were also hit, including the regions of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and the city of Ternopil, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a post on X. "To put an end to Russia's killing and destruction, more pressure on Moscow is required, as are more steps to strengthen Ukraine," he said. 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Russian shelling also killed a couple in their 50s in the southern city of Kherson, close to the front lines, local Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported in a Facebook post. Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said its forces shot down 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, over the country's south and west, including near the capital. Drone debris injured two civilians in the suburbs of Moscow, local Governor Andrei Vorobyov reported. On Friday, Russia struck six Ukrainian territories, killing at least six people and injuring about 80. Among the dead were three emergency responders in Kyiv, one person in Lutsk and two people in Chernihiv. A US-led diplomatic push for a settlement has brought two rounds of direct peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine, although the negotiations delivered no significant breakthroughs. The sides remain far apart on their terms for an end to the fighting. 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The intensity of the Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past weeks has further dampened hopes that the warring sides could reach a peace deal anytime soon - especially after Kyiv recently embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprising drone attack on military airfields deep inside Russia. According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia struck with 215 missiles and drones overnight on Saturday, and Ukrainian air defences shot down and neutralised 87 drones and seven missiles. Several other areas in Ukraine were also hit, including the regions of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and the city of Ternopil, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a post on X. "To put an end to Russia's killing and destruction, more pressure on Moscow is required, as are more steps to strengthen Ukraine," he said. The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday said its forces carried out a night-time strike on Ukrainian military targets, including ammunition depots, drone assembly workshops, and weaponry repair stations. There was no comment from Moscow on the reports of casualties in Kharkiv. Kharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said the strikes also damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes. Terekhov said it was "the most powerful attack" on the city since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Kharkiv's regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said two districts in the city were struck with three missiles, five aerial glide bombs and 48 drones. He said two children, a baby boy and a 14-year-old girl, were among the injured. In the Dnipropetrovsk province further south, two women aged 45 and 88 were injured, according to local Governor Serhii Lysak. Russian shelling also killed a couple in their 50s in the southern city of Kherson, close to the front lines, local Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported in a Facebook post. Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said its forces shot down 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, over the country's south and west, including near the capital. Drone debris injured two civilians in the suburbs of Moscow, local Governor Andrei Vorobyov reported. On Friday, Russia struck six Ukrainian territories, killing at least six people and injuring about 80. Among the dead were three emergency responders in Kyiv, one person in Lutsk and two people in Chernihiv. A US-led diplomatic push for a settlement has brought two rounds of direct peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine, although the negotiations delivered no significant breakthroughs. The sides remain far apart on their terms for an end to the fighting. Ukraine has offered an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and a meeting between its President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock. But the Kremlin has effectively rejected a truce and hasn't budged from its demands. US President Donald Trump said this week that Putin told him Moscow would respond to Ukraine's attack on Russian military airfields last Sunday. Trump also said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia "fight for a while" before pulling them apart and pursuing peace. Trump's comments were a remarkable detour from his often-stated appeals to stop the war and signalled he might be giving up on recent peace efforts.
9 News
10 hours ago
- 9 News
Pheobe Bishop 'lit up' every room she walked into, best friend says
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Tributes have begun to pour in for Pheobe Bishop after police searching for the missing Bundaberg teenager found human remains. Police today confirmed the remains, found yesterday on a back road near the Good Night Scrub National Park, about an hour away from Pheobe's home in Gin Gin, are human. Further testing is being carried out, but police believe they belong to the 17-year-old. Tributes have begun to pour in for Pheobe Bishop. (Nine) Her mother, Kylie Johnson, said the news has ripped her apart. "I didn't think my heart could break anymore than it did when you went missing, or when the charges were laid but this, this is ripping me apart," she said yesterday. Pheobe's best friend, Mikayla Howarth, has paid tribute and set up a floral memorial in Camden, in Sydney's south-west. "I've never met anyone in my entire life who had such a kind heart that she had," Howarth told 9News. "She was so beautiful, and every room she walked into just lit up, and she was just so happy." Pheobe's community is holding a candlelight vigil tomorrow in Gin Gin. People are being asked to wear bright colours and butterflies. "I think the community is absolutely reeling," Bundaberg mayor Helen Blackburn said. "We've had a few horrific weeks here in our Bundaberg region, and this is very unlike anything that we've had to experience before." Pheobe's best friend, Mikayla Howarth, has paid tribute, (Nine) Bouquets and letters are piling up on the road where Pheobe is believed to have been last seen, near Bundaberg Airport. "Forever 17," some of the letters read. Pheobe's housemates, 34-year-old James Wood and his partner, 33-year-old Tanika Bromley, were charged with one count of murder and two counts each of interfering with a corpse after they were arrested in Bundaberg on Thursday night. Pheobe went missing after she failed to check in and board her flight to Western Australia from Bundaberg Airport on May 15. Three crime scenes have been declared — Pheobe's home she shared with her housemates in Gin Gin, her housemate's grey Hyundai and the site where the remains were found near Good Night Scrub National Park. Investigations remain ongoing. Police continue to appeal for any information about Pheobe or the movement of her housemate's grey Hyundai IX35 with registration 414EW3 between May 15 to 18 in the greater Gin Gin area. bundaberg queensland national Australia missing persons murder courts crime police CONTACT US Auto news:Is this the next Subaru WRX? Mysterious performance car teased.
