Australia Australia - Jayden Penno-Tompsett, 22, Charter Towers, Qld, 31 Dec 2017

[Horror]

What does his stance tell you? It’s not an angry or aggressive stance because he would have his legs apart pulling at the door. It’s like he’s relaxed waiting for the door to be unlocked.

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Also wasn't the story that he was already arguing with someone at this stop then continued drive and jumped out. He doesn't look tense at all to me


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[they'll get you]

What does his stance tell you? It’s not an angry or aggressive stance because he would have his legs apart pulling at the door. It’s like he’s relaxed waiting for the door to be unlocked.

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Second thoughts that is the driver’s side door. I’m a little confused.


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[SouthAussie]

I am wondering exactly when the driver went back to look for Jayden.

It is about a 5½ hour drive from Charters Towers to Cairns, maybe longer if your car is 'about to break down'. And the driver said that he had to wait 4 or 5 days for his car to be fixed.

Did the driver go back after 4 or 5 days? Is he now saying he stuck around to look for Jayden - or didn't go far and turned around - once he was told that police are tracing the movements of his car? When others said they saw 'Jayden' wandering around on the Acacia Vale property? When the time of arrival in Cairns was clearly identified (by pings, witnesses)?

Do police have his phone pinging up and down the highway? Do they have it not leaving the Charters Towers area when he said he left right away?

Mr Tattersall said as well as speaking to police he had spent “days” looking for his mate.

Asked why he drove off and continued on to Cairns as planned, he said he was “owed money” there that he needed to fix his car. He said the vehicle was “on the verge of breaking down”.
“I had to wait about 4/5 days until I could get it fixed. Otherwise if I didn’t do what I did I’d be stuck in Charters Towers with no money or nothing myself.”

http://www.news.com.au/national/que...e/news-story/9671b0aef725b838f1a137b211d8e805

I surely hope the property owners are taking a close look at their extensive properties there. They should know the landscape better than anyone, can see if there are any changes more quickly than any search teams.

 

[SouthAussie]

Second thoughts that is the driver’s side door. I’m a little confused.


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That is likely how they confirmed that Jayden was driving. When you look at the servo's CCTV recording, Jayden has something in his hand. Too small for a phone - which is what I initially thought it could be. I think it is the car keys.

He leaves with a drink clearly in his hand, the car owner leaves with a large bottle of water in his hand.

 

[Bohemian]

EXCLUSIVE: 'I'm losing hope': Heartbroken mother of man still missing TWO weeks after disappearing on ill-fated New Year's Eve road trip says she fears the worst
By Belinda Cleary For Daily Mail Australia
22:00 AEDT 15 Jan 2018, updated 22:46 AEDT 15 Jan 2018

• Newcastle man Jayden Penno-Tompsett, 22, been missing for over two weeks
• The man had a fight with a friend on a roadtrip to Cairns and missing since
• He was last seen at a Roadhouse near Charters Towers south-west of Townsville
• His mother Rachel is searching on the ground but is 'losing hope each day'
• His mother has even asked psychics to help with the search

Read more at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5270261/Newcastle-man-missing-two-weeks-Cairns-trip.html

 

[Horror]

Big storms in charters towers this afternoon and evening also according to the weather pages I follow on FB


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[they'll get you]

Maybe he was invited to do some work on a property to earn some money. I believe the shearing season around late spring/summer.
http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/senate/committee/history/animalwelfare_ctte/sheep_husbandry/06ch6.pdf


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[they'll get you]

In the dailymail article Jayden’s mum has put money into his account in case he needs it but still it hasn’t been touched. Oh my I feel for her.


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[Grapey]

Yes, that is really interesting, Horror. I wonder what kind of assistance this person gave. A jump-start to the vehicle? Breaking up a fight between the two guys? Drugs? A few dollars for some petrol? The police definitely are not saying exactly what the assistance was. I wonder why.


Adding to the intrigue, police are asking a member of the public who “rendered assistance” to a young man in the Charters Towers area to urgently come forward.

“We are also seeking advice from a member of the community ... that afforded some assistance to either the missing person or his acquaintance. We know that it has happened and that member of the community will know exactly what they did ... that they afforded assistance most likely to the missing person’s acquaintance.”

This rendered assistance thing is strange. So the police know it's happened, but don't know who was helped OR who helped them? So the information hasn't come from the helper or the person who was helped. :thinking:

Maybe someone reported seeing something dodgy and recognised the car? But the way they've phrased it makes me think they've got more solid evidence of it happening.

Maybe they found a message on Jayden's phone asking for help and they think it was the friend using Jayden's phone? But wouldn't they be able to trace the number?


Either way it's sounding like they are starting to make it public that they don't quite believe the story they've been given, IMO.

Just a bit unsure about the friend tbh.

 

[they'll get you]

The way the police & SES are searching they know something’s not good.
I’m thinking Peter Falconio has never been found in this wide sunburnt land.
Jayden might have been moved in ‘friend’s’ car to another location. That’s when he’ll possibly never be found.


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[SouthAussie]

The way the police & SES are searching they know something’s not good.
I’m thinking Peter Falconio has never been found in this wide sunburnt land.
Jayden might have been moved in ‘friend’s’ car to another location. That’s when he’ll possibly never be found.


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Kyle Coleman was never found either. This case seems very similar to Kyle's case, to me.

 

[1968]

If the lads did argue "possibly about money", do you think they maybe argued about drugs? As his friend said that he himself had no money and had to immediately drive to Cairns to get some? If that's true.

Maybe Jayden had scored some, and wouldn't share. Then rather than Jayden becoming enraged, maybe it was the friend who became enraged.


BBM
News.com.au understands the two men argued about something — possibly money — and Mr Penno-Tompsett, who was driving, pulled over and left the vehicle.
http://www.news.com.au/national/que...y/news-story/5920daf121e61ce096bc244215b59882

Yes I was thinking along those lines too SA.
Possibly the friend was taking some drugs to Cairns to sell? And that was the payday.



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Yes I was thinking along those lines too SA.
Possibly the friend was taking some drugs to Cairns to sell? And that was the payday.



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I am also thinking that the person who "rendered assistance" in Charters Towers - to the driver, we have been led to believe - may have been part of some kind of drug deal. Supplying something for the road. Or purchasing something from the driver .. maybe to give him some cash to continue the trip to Cairns.

 

[bearbear]

this is alarming, the highway has a history and is known as the ‘highway of death’
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...d/news-story/21d9c056be9b64ba30cf227fecce26c0

 

[they'll get you]

this is alarming, the highway has a history and is known as the ‘highway of death’
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...d/news-story/21d9c056be9b64ba30cf227fecce26c0

Bloody hell!


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[they'll get you]

The father of a teenager who spent 30 hours trapped in a crashed car in New South Wales bush says he knew his son hadn’t run away so following his intuition he hired a helicopter to look for him.

When 17-year-old Samuel Lethbridge failed to return to his home in Blacksmiths at Lake Macquarie on Sunday night, his family decided to search for him.

Tony Lethbridge suspected his son may have been in a car crash and the helicopter he hired on Monday morning was used to spot the car in bush off the Pacific Highway at Crangan Bay.

By the time emergency services reached Samuel, he had been in the smashed Hyundai for more than a day suffering multiple fractures.

“Everybody was saying he’s probably run away and all that kind of stuff. That’s just not Samuel,” Lethbridge told Network Seven on Tuesday.
Samuel was trapped inside the vehicle and had to be cut free by emergency services.

He was taken to John Hunter hospital where he underwent surgery for multiple fractures and remains in a serious condition.
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...n-car-wreckage-after-hiring-search-helicopter


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[they'll get you]

Jayden was dressed in black so he would be hard to see in the night. What if he was hit by a road train?
If he’s hurt in the bush the black clothing would be near impossible to see.


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[they'll get you]

This father was looking for a white vehicle only 20 Kim from home, so much easier than looking for Jayden, could be like finding a small black needle in a massive haystack.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...n-car-wreckage-after-hiring-search-helicopter


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[1968]

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.a...r/news-story/b36e08f77a644a20fad847102398f535

North Queensland’s biggest drug bust of the year was in Charters Towers when $2 million worth of ice was seized in a camping fridge on August 27 during a police traffic stop.


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[1968]

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...-ice-in-icebox-during-rbt/8849826?pfmredir=sm

And this. Charters Towers appears to be a bit of a stop on the illicit highway for drug trafficking north & south. There are many many articles online about drugs in the area, major operations, seizures etc.
A bit depressing actually. To know that country areas like this, once the strong hold of cattle empires, those typical akubra hat wearing, sunburned old blokes who worked damn hard on the land, and did an honest days work for not much pay - have now become the empire of these rotten individuals, meth producers, who seek to profit from the utter misery and ruined lives of the people they hook.
IMO only


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