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1. Police defend waiting six days to notify the public of Tiahleigh Palmer’s disappearance.
Following the disappearance and subsequent murder of 12-year-old school girl, Tiahleigh Palmer, police are facing criticism as to why they waited six days to make a public alert about her disappearance.
It was only on Thursday morning, the day her body was eventually found by fisherman, that police first made calls to the public for information.
The Guardian reports that when questioned about the six-day delay in investigation, Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson claimed the police service were already interviewing witnesses.
“Throughout the whole period there was a whole range of investigations being conducted and there were a number of [unconfirmed] sightings,” said Hutchinson.
However, the Superintendent wasn’t interested in further outlining their investigations, rather focussing on the current circumstances of the crime.
“What we’re here talking about today is the investigation of the location of a decease child, OK?” Hutchinson stated.
“We’re interested in what’s happening from now on…anything that might have occurred prior to this, those further investigations, I can talk to about [about] later.”
Tiahleigh was found dead near the Pimpama River, in the northern Gold Coast, last Thursday afternoon at around 5:00pm.
Police say that Tiahleigh was last seen leaving her school on the 30th October and was wearing her Marsden State High School Uniform and carrying a pink backpack. Both Tiahleigh’s uniform and backpack have not yet been located, and police are appealing to the public for information.