'Someone knows something': Mum of missing teen makes emotional video plea
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here The mum of missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop has issued a further plea for public assistance, as the search for the 17-year-old daughter approaches a third week. Pheobe was last seen on May 15 before she failed to board a flight from Bundaberg to Perth. Despite large scale police searches, including in rugged bushland last week , detectives have been unable to locate the young girl. Pheobe Bishop's mum Kylie Johnson issued a heartbreaking video statement, urging anyone with information to come forward. (Queensland Police) Today, her mum Kylie Johnson issued a heartbreaking video statement, urging anyone with information to come forward. "This is a pain no person or family should ever have to experience," Johnson said. "Pheobe was a beautiful, loving, kind person, and everyday not knowing where she has been is devastating for us. "This is why we're appealing to anyone with any information that may help to bring Pheobe home, to contact police. "Even the smallest bit of information may be all the police need to find Pheobe." Police say Pheobe's housemates Tanika Bromley and James Wood were the last to see her about 8.30am on May 15, when they claim they dropped her off outside Bundaberg Regional Airport. They've both since been charged with unrelated weapons offences. Pheobe Bishop's mum, Kylie Johnson, said the family's "heartache and pain is raw and real". (Facebook/Kylie Johnson) Their home in Gin Gin has been declared a crime scene, and a grey Hyundai has been seized. Detectives are still appealing for vision or sightings of a grey Hyundai ix35 in the greater Gin Gin area between May 15 and 18. "I know that this investigation isn't over. It will not be over for me until we find Pheobe," Johnson said. "I still hold hope that Pheobe will come home, but I have to consider the possibility that she also won't. "If the worst-case scenario has happened, I at least need to know where she's resting. I need to know where Pheobe is. "My daughter wouldn't just disappear. Someone knows something and as a mum I'm asking you to come forward with your information." Police say they continue to "run out several lines of enquiry". The greater Gin Gin area remains the focus of the investigation. queensland
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Wood and Pheobe's other housemate Tanika Kristan Bromley have since been charged with weapons offences. Bromley was granted bail at Bundaberg Magistrates Court to reappear on June 23 while Wood was issued a notice to appear on June 13. Police said the weapons charges were unrelated to Pheobe's disappearance and there was no suggestion Bromley or Wood were involved. Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson has been pleading for information since her daughter's disappearance, documenting her family's heartache on social media. In her latest post Ms Johnson wondered if her life would be the same. "Starting day 20 with you still missing Pheobe," she posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "I don't know if life will ever be the same again? I don't know if I will ever look at the world the same way that I did before May 15th. "What I do know is that people have information on where you are Phee and we need that reported to police." In a video statement released by Queensland Police at the weekend, Ms Johnson said she still held onto hope but had to consider the possibility her daughter wasn't coming home. "This is a pain no person or family should ever have to experience," she said. The police search initially focused on Good Night Scrub national park, an hour's drive from Bundaberg airport, with homicide detectives, cadaver dogs and divers called in. Some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination. The search revealed evidence might have been moved from the national park before police arrived. Police then focused on Gin Gin where Pheobe lived with Wood and Bromley. The community rallied around the missing teen's family during the search with the "Leave the Lights On for Pheobe" campaign. Gin Gin locals posted photos on social media of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Anyone with information, footage or sightings of the grey Hyundai between May 15 and May 18 in the Gin Gin area has been urged to contact police. Pheobe is about 180cm tall with a pale complexion, long hair that has been dyed red and hazel eyes. She was last seen carrying luggage, wearing a green tank top and grey sweatpants. A housemate of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop has been arrested over the 17-year-old's "suspicious" disappearance. James Wood, 34, has been taken into custody, almost three weeks after Pheobe missed a flight and vanished in southern Queensland. Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on May 15 after booking a trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend. CCTV footage indicated Pheobe never arrived at the airport terminal, police said. Police on Wednesday said a man was in custody but no charges had been laid. "A 34-year-old man ... is assisting police with enquiries as part of ongoing investigations into the disappearance of Pheobe Bishop," a statement said. Police earlier on Wednesday said they had scaled back their search for Pheobe after combing the Gin Gin area where the teenager lived with Wood and a woman on a property. The Gin Gin property near Bundaberg and a grey Hyundai ix35, thought to have been used to take Pheobe to the airport, were declared crime scenes soon after her disappearance. Wood and Pheobe's other housemate Tanika Kristan Bromley have since been charged with weapons offences. Bromley was granted bail at Bundaberg Magistrates Court to reappear on June 23 while Wood was issued a notice to appear on June 13. Police said the weapons charges were unrelated to Pheobe's disappearance and there was no suggestion Bromley or Wood were involved. Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson has been pleading for information since her daughter's disappearance, documenting her family's heartache on social media. In her latest post Ms Johnson wondered if her life would be the same. "Starting day 20 with you still missing Pheobe," she posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "I don't know if life will ever be the same again? I don't know if I will ever look at the world the same way that I did before May 15th. "What I do know is that people have information on where you are Phee and we need that reported to police." In a video statement released by Queensland Police at the weekend, Ms Johnson said she still held onto hope but had to consider the possibility her daughter wasn't coming home. "This is a pain no person or family should ever have to experience," she said. The police search initially focused on Good Night Scrub national park, an hour's drive from Bundaberg airport, with homicide detectives, cadaver dogs and divers called in. Some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination. The search revealed evidence might have been moved from the national park before police arrived. Police then focused on Gin Gin where Pheobe lived with Wood and Bromley. The community rallied around the missing teen's family during the search with the "Leave the Lights On for Pheobe" campaign. Gin Gin locals posted photos on social media of their front lights switched on "to guide Pheobe home". Anyone with information, footage or sightings of the grey Hyundai between May 15 and May 18 in the Gin Gin area has been urged to contact police. Pheobe is about 180cm tall with a pale complexion, long hair that has been dyed red and hazel eyes. She was last seen carrying luggage, wearing a green tank top and grey sweatpants.
