Phoebe Bishop's ‘shattered' mum reacts after 17-year-old's housemates charged with her murder
Pheobe's Bishop's mother says her world has been 'shattered' after the 17-year-old's housemates were charged with her murder.
Her remains are yet to be found and Kylie Johnson has begged anyone with information about Pheobe's final resting place to come forward.
Queensland Police charged James Wood, 34, and Tamika Bromley, 33, with one count each of murder and two counts each of interfering with a corpse.
Mr Wood had been initially taken into custody on Tuesday but was released without charge on Wednesday, before police formally charged him and Ms Bromley on Thursday.
'Our world has just been shattered into the most horrific place I've ever been…' Ms Johnson wrote in a social media post.
'I need my baby home to put her to rest! I'm absolutely begging anyone that knows anything to come forward.
'WE need to put her to rest, we need to put her to peace.'
Pheobe's disappearance has gripped Australia for more than three weeks and made headlines around the world as police combed bushland and appealed to the public for help to find her.
Mr Wood and Ms Bromley were living with Pheobe in a rundown, garbage-strewn house in the small Queensland town of Gin Gin when she vanished.
The pair claimed they dropped her to Bundaberg airport in their grey Hyundai ix35 before she vanished on May 15. But police say CCTV at the airport proved she never made it.
Hours before he was arrested on Tuesday, reports emerged of text messages allegedly sent by Mr Wood giving his version of events leading up to Pheobe going missing.
He claimed Pheobe had been 'furious' when she slept through her 5am alarm on the day she was meant to fly out.
'She gets like that sometimes and usually we can calm her down but she was escalating and then she smashed the TV,' Mr Wood told the
Daily Mail
.
He said on the way to the airport Pheobe got upset that she hadn't had time to put on makeup so they car pulled over less than a 1km from the airport entrance.
Mr Wood said he and Ms Bromley went for a walk lasting between three and eight minutes to give Pheobe 'five minutes' to do 'what she needed to do'.
When they returned, she was gone, Mr Wood claimed.
Their Gin Gin house and their Hyundai were both declared crime scenes early on in the police investigation.
The pair are due to appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday June 6.
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