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

[Jo04]

Without blinking an eye, Id call 911

I wouldnt hesitate. I woukd call the cops and even get in the car myself

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[Liadan]

Warrawong is a very dangerous suburb - she definitely should not have been walking anywhere there at night. I had a girl from work who got raped and robbed in her Warrawong apartment - the poor girl she was a total mess - beaten up- black 'face' as she has so much bruising and you couldn't imagine the rest of her body. They stole everything of value when they had beaten her unconscious and it wasn't much but a TV and new toaster etc - she had just got her first job and was staring out on her own. Just soooooo incredibly sad.

 

[Marg from Oz]

Telehone technology, how good is it? Could they trace a phone pinging at a tower the same time April's was. That is if the perp had a phone. Adrian Baily was pinged along with Jill Meagher phone. Just one avenue at tracing this perp. JMOO

 

[giagreen]

Thank god she posted that fb states. It at least gives an idea as to what happen. And that the guy may be Asian.

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[they'll get you]

Telehone technology, how good is it? Could they trace a phone pinging at a tower the same time April's was. That is if the perp had a phone. Adrian Baily was pinged along with Jill Meagher phone. Just one avenue at tracing this perp. JMOO

Hey smart thinking 99! :cheers:

 

[FigTree]

I cannot see a map with the exact location in which direction/route that April was walking or where she was found.
I can only find a map of the area.

April-Lee was a super smart girl to post what was happening to her on FB.
Kudos to you April-Lee.
I hope you are stable and on the way to making a full recovery.
You are in good hands now.
The cops will get this guy for you.
Sending love and prayers to you and your family.

 

[enzeder]

Insp Worthington said police had seized CCTV footage from the intersecting Lake Heights Road, and were reviewing it in search of April-lee, who has long, brown hair.

She was wearing cream-coloured cargo pants, a khaki-coloured jacket and brown sandals and was carrying a black handbag when she was injured.

April-lee was walking home from her boyfriend’s house, located a short distance from her home, when she was injured.

April-lee Gillen: police follow-up Facebook plea
Read more: http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/...-gillen-police-follow-up-facebook-plea/?cs=12

 

[enzeder]

I cannot see a map with the exact location in which direction/route that April was walking or where she was found.
I can only find a map of the area.

April-Lee was a super smart girl to post what was happening to her on FB.
Kudos to you April-Lee.
I hope you are stable and on the way to making a full recovery.
You are in good hands now.
The cops will get this guy for you.
Sending love and prayers to you and your family.

Here's SouthAussie's post with link to Google map.

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[they'll get you]

Short walk from boyfriends home....why didn't she call him? He would have known her route & approximate distance away. Ring & say 'HELP ME!'

Remember April had 1% battery left.
Have you ever called the local police or 000?
By the time you get through any questions of "fire, police or ambulance' and 'what state is that in' & 'could you spell that again?'
1%? No way enough.
I wouldn't like to make that choice.

 

[SouthAussie]

Warrawong to Berkeley, as April's sister said, does not seem like a short walk to me. Especially for a young girl late at night. Maybe April made this walk many times before, and made it safely, but 5km is a good distance for someone to follow, stalk and harass her.

It is so important for people in fear to know that it is okay to run up to someone's house and knock on their door at any time of day or night. Tell them you are in fear. Even if they don't let you in ... most people will call the police, your mum, your sister, for you ... and let you hang around on their property while you wait.

There are so many houses in the vicinity of where April was found, and all along her walking route.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/...45878,1338m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!4m3!1m0!1m0!3e0

 

[they'll get you]

April-lee was walking home from her boyfriend’s house, located a short distance from her home, when she was injured.

BBM I don't consider 5 klms a short distance but April said from 'Warrawong to Berkely'.
I feel that time of night 100 metres a long enough.
I'm sure her boyfriend is doing some soul searching ATM.

 

[giagreen]

Short walk from boyfriends home....why didn't she call him? He would have known her route & approximate distance away. Ring & say 'HELP ME!'

I was thinking the same thing then I thought about it some more and realized that if it was me I'd have a better chance at getting help with all my friends and family on fb then my bf at that point only because with my boyfriend he would of been sleeping and slept threw my calls for help. Or I would think that and not want to take the chance of running out of charge well trying to call. And maybe she did call and he didn't answer.

Either way I'm so happy she is alive and hope she heals from this both physically and mentally. And I'm thankful she posted on fb so LE can't dismiss this as a hit and run when there is a straight up creep trying to hurt young woman.

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[FigTree]

Warrawong to Berkeley, as April's sister said, does not seem like a short walk to me. Especially for a young girl late at night. Maybe April made this walk many times before, and made it safely, but 5km is a good distance for someone to follow, stalk and harass her.

It is so important for people in fear to know that it is okay to run up to someone's house and knock on their door at any time of day or night. Tell them you are in fear. Even if they don't let you in ... most people will call the police, your mum, your sister, for you ... and let you hang around on their property while you wait.

There are so many houses in the vicinity of where April was found, and all along her walking route.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/...45878,1338m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!4m3!1m0!1m0!3e0

I am wondering if this hit and run was very quick - and the who harmed April-Lee thought he would try and do something to her after she used her phone. I actually hope she got a photo of his car.

Prayers for April-Lee.

 

[SouthAussie]

A view of Northcliffe Drive, near Lake Heights Road. If April was walking on the footpath, she would have been walking with oncoming traffic in the lane closest to her.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sVk87Mz-oP0fIzKKXijXHfA!2e0

 

[SouthAussie]

More than one guy?

"April's father and his family have been long time friends of mine of some 40 years, and it was devastating today to find out who the victim actually was..... And all because she refused a lift from the Asian guys that stopped first and told her that she would be safer in their car than walking on the sidewalk," the person wrote.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-need-he...cebook-plea-20140422-370w1.html#ixzz2zhOu86eE

 

[LJKaust]

Warrawong to where she was found can be a long walk or a short walk, it just depends where in Warrawong she was walking from. I saw someone say that the area is very dangerous and although I would not be wandering around there at night, random attacks aren't common.

My opinion on this is 100% that it wasn't a hit and run. Poor April. I actually hope she can't remember anything when she wakes up lease:

 

[SouthAussie]

Warrawong to where she was found can be a long walk or a short walk, it just depends where in Warrawong she was walking from. I saw someone say that the area is very dangerous and although I would not be wandering around there at night, random attacks aren't common.

My opinion on this is 100% that it wasn't a hit and run. Poor April. I actually hope she can't remember anything when she wakes up lease:

Oh LJK, that doesn't sound good.

I always remember in Shey Webber's case where she suffered massive head injuries, a police officer said that she looked like she had been in a car accident (and she hadn't).

And it just seems too weird, if April had been walking on the footpath and an oncoming car had hit her, they presumably would have seen her in their headlights and would have had to go up over the kerb and onto the footpath (and perhaps miss parked cars, as Google shows that cars park along the side of that street on that side). Not impossible, but highly improbable imo ... unless it was intentional.

 

[CHERIE.T]

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/...ee-gillen-police-appeal-for-witnesses/?cs=300

Police appeal for witnesses

 

[Brightbird]

April-lee was walking home from her boyfriend’s house, located a short distance from her home, when she was injured.

BBM I don't consider 5 klms a short distance but April said from 'Warrawong to Berkely'.
I feel that time of night 100 metres a long enough.
I'm sure her boyfriend is doing some soul searching ATM.

At that age I never thought twice about walking dark side streets late at night. I walked around St Kilda in Melbourne and creeps in cars would regularly pull up or slow down. Yet it didn't deter me. I think you overlook the dangers when you're comfortable in an area. Then add youth to that. I was walking home from the supermarket one morning on the back street and some people thought it would be funny to 'bump' me with their car. Now at 31, I'm a lot more careful and I'll be nagging my much younger sister to be careful. At 17 you just don't think these things will actually happen to you. Plus you like the independence at that age.

 

[SouthAussie]

There are also reports that the incident was filmed by someone, but Inspector Worthington says he cannot comment on that at this stage.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-...ost-about-stranger-before-hit-and-run/5403448

I just noticed this sentence stuck at the end of an article from a couple of days ago. Someone filmed the incident? Not 'the incident was caught on CCTV'?