Australia - Girl, 17, left for dead at Lake Heights near Port Kembla, NSW

[they'll get you]

I agree with They'll get you
It is a long way for a girl to be walking home alone at night.
This is looking very sinister, and yes maybe not a hit a run as first thought?

Exactly. 5 klms at 1 am? Please, a lesson to women out there-a member of your family will pick you up.
Men doing the same are equally at risk.
Treat everyone else like monsters and you might survive to live till old age!!

 

[SouthAussie]

Police say Ms Gillen has suffered severe head injuries and the possibility of a hit-and-run is being investigated.

"She's still in a pretty bad way," said Inspector Gordon Dunlop from Lake Illawarra police.

"She is going to survive, but the extent of the injuries to her brain is still uncertain."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/22802853/sisters-desperate-plea-over-suspected-hit-run/

 

[Marg from Oz]

If it's true that she posted "Some Asian guy" then it narrows down the search instead of "some guy" Which could be anyone. JMOO

 

[bettiepageturner]

If that's what happened (being picked up by mystery guy), I wonder if she jumped out of the vehicle as it was moving. Wouldn't necessarily explain the "loud noise" unless he went back over her with the car.

Wishing her a speedy recovery.

 

[enzeder]

April-lee Gillen, 17, remains in the intensive care unit at Wollongong Hospital with critical head injuries after neighbours heard a loud bang and discovered her lying unconscious on Northcliffe Drive in Lake Heights, just south of Wollongong, around 1am on Sunday.

April-lee had posted on her Facebook account a short time before she was found: "Phones on 1 per cent walking from warrawong to berks [Berkeley] and some Asian guy just stopped me telling me to come home with him cause it's safe and I need help wtf sos".

'I need help': hit-and-run victim April-lee Gillen's Facebook plea
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZ3BqHGM

 

[bettiepageturner]

'I need help': hit-and-run victim April-lee Gillen's Facebook plea
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZ3BqHGM

That is SO terrifying. What would y'all do if you saw that on your newsfeed? I wonder if any of her friends reacted to it? I'd probably call the police, I feel silly 79% of the time as it is but better silly than sorry.

 

[Amee]

A teenage girl who was found with severe head injuries on the side of the road in Wollongong may not have been the victim of a suspected hit-run.

It's been revealed that April-lee Gillen, 17, posted a chilling message to Facebook around the time she was injured.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/228...-message-from-teen-left-for-dead-on-roadside/

 

[bettiepageturner]

I feel like "hit and run" is misleading.. if we're to take that statement and the FB theory both at face value, it would be an abduct-hit-run. If there's a psycho out there picking up strangers and terrifying them, it's more worth noting than the possibility of someone who was driving and texting, maybe drinking, and sideswiped a pedestrian, which is along the lines of what "hit and run" implies, at least to me.

 

[they'll get you]

*SMH* Another person wrote on social media that neighbours had provided "vital video surveillance of the event" to police, and "this low life will be caught and sent to jail".

*SMH* April-lee had posted on her Facebook account a short time before she was found: "Phones on 1 per cent walking from warrawong to berks [Berkeley] and some Asian guy just stopped me telling me to come home with him cause it's safe and I need help wtf sos".


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZEyXS5S

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZDss01q
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZ3BqHGM

 

[enzeder]

FB page for April-Lee Gillen's justice

https://www.facebook.com/pages/April-Lee-Gillens-justice/287571544735479

That link wont open for me Amee. Just takes me to my newsfeed?.

 

[CHERIE.T]

That is SO terrifying. What would y'all do if you saw that on your newsfeed? I wonder if any of her friends reacted to it? I'd probably call the police, I feel silly 79% of the time as it is but better silly than sorry.

Without blinking an eye, Id call 911

 

[CHERIE.T]

*SMH* Another person wrote on social media that neighbours had provided "vital video surveillance of the event" to police, and "this low life will be caught and sent to jail".

*SMH* April-lee had posted on her Facebook account a short time before she was found: "Phones on 1 per cent walking from warrawong to berks [Berkeley] and some Asian guy just stopped me telling me to come home with him cause it's safe and I need help wtf sos".


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZEyXS5S

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZDss01q
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZ3BqHGM

omg :banghead::banghead::banghead:

 

[Amee]

That link wont open for me Amee. Just takes me to my newsfeed?.

It does the same for me too now, the page must have been removed. I'll remove my post.

 

[enzeder]

It does the same for me too now, the page must have been removed. I'll remove my post.

Thanks Amee - The page might show up again later?.

 

[sleepinoz]

Without blinking an eye, Id call 911

In Australia you call 000 - just in case your visiting

I would really like to see those 4 comments under her post, hopefully her friends did ring 000.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZEyXS5S

 

[Amee]

Thanks Amee - The page might show up again later?.

When I looked at it this morning there werent many comments or "likes" on it. A couple of people were asking who started the page. No answer to that question.
I have a feeling it wasnt run by family.
Would Police ask for it to be removed?

The message was re-posted to a Facebook page calling for justice for April-lee Gillen, and the organiser has urged people to share April-lee's status as police continue to hunt for the suspected hit-and-run driver

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZtt12Fa

 

[sleepinoz]

https://www.facebook.com/nswpoliceforce/posts/10152135468806185?stream_ref=1

Police are renewing their appeal for information on a suspected hit and run near Port Kembla at the weekend.

It was just after 1am on Sunday 20 April 2014, that emergency services were called to Northcliffe Drive, near the intersection of Lake Heights Road at Lake Heights, after reports of a woman on the road.

Police found 17-year-old April-Lee Gillen lying on the roadway. She was treated by NSW Ambulance Paramedics for head injuries, before being taken to Wollongong Hospital.

She remains in hospital in a critical condition.

 

[Amee]

In Australia you call 000 - just in case your visiting

I would really like to see those 4 comments under her post, hopefully her friends did ring 000.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zZEyXS5S

Yep I'd love to see them as well Sleep.

I hope at least one of them said run to the closest house and I'll ring 000 now


:moo:

 

[Amee]

Police say April's message is a vital part of their investigation.

Inspector Steve Worthington from Lake Illawarra Police says they are particularly keen to speak with the man mentioned in the post.

"That is certainly vital information our detectives are following up. But until we can speak to April herself, we need further information from the public," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-22/april-lee-gillen-posts-on-facebook-plea-for-help/5403448

 

[enzeder]

April-Lee's mother Leonie told MailOnline she has not been able to bring herself to look at her daughter's Facebook account as her relatives maintain a bedside vigil at Wollongong hospital.

'I'm just trying to concentrate on April, I've just popped out to have a shower and then I'll be back,' she said from the family home.

'I'm just trying to keep my energy levels up, it's very tough.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uck-car-left-fighting-life.html#ixzz2za1w0DcN