34m ago
NT police commissioner speaking to ABC Radio Alice Springs
This morning
NT Police Commissioner Martin Dole will be speaking to
ABC Radio Alice Springs to provide an update on the search for missing five-year-old
Alice Springs girl
Sharon Granites.
Today marks day five of the search for little Sharon, who vanished from a home at
Old Timers town camp on the outskirts of
Alice Springs.
28m ago
Police believe people are assisting Jefferson Lewis
NT Police Commissioner Martin Dole says he is still adamant that there are people who know information about the whereabouts of
Jefferson Lewis.
"Our hope is that piece of information comes through, that someone in the community knows something and that they let us know," he said.
"There's people out there who are assisting, and that do know something, and that aren't feeding that information into the authorities."
22m ago
Commissioner says resources poured into search similar to Falconio case
Commissioner Dole says the investigation into the case of
Sharon Granites is "the biggest one I can recall in a very long time".
Noting comparisons to the
Peter Falconio case, the
commissioner said "that is the type of resources we're pouring into this".
"We've got specialist sections here, we've got assistance from interstate, we've had offers from interstate all over the other jurisdictions, we've got inquiries happening in other jurisdictions, and we're pouring every available resources down here to assist," he said
"And overwhelming support from the community as well."
17m ago
Sharon's non-verbal communication 'complicates' search
Commissioner Dole acknowledges family reports that
Sharon Granites is non-verbal, often communicating with her hands.
He said that this factor does "complicate" the search in a variety of scenarios.
If she is with
Jefferson Lewis still, it means "she's unable to communicate needs".
And if she's wandered off at some stage, it makes searching "difficult" because "she's not able to communicate with searchers".
9m ago
Police explain why they believe Jefferson Lewis is in Alice Springs
Commissioner Dole offered reasoning for police's belief that
Jefferson Lewis is still in
Alice Springs and being helped by some members of the community.
"The evidence is the lack of information. It is the absence of any sightings, anybody seeing him since the sighting at [Old Timers] camp that evening, that is highly unusual," Commissioner Dole said.
"By now we would have some information, somewhere that somebody would have said, 'Yes we have seen that man somewhere in the last four days,' and in that absence [it] tells us someone is assisting."
The
commissioner added that "extensive searches" had also been done in communities outside of
Alice Springswhere police know
Jefferson Lewis has "linkages".
A lack of any sightings from people in those communities has led police to believe he is still in
Alice Springs.
"People in communities know when there's somebody that's there that shouldn't be there or somebody that's not normally there, that's not the information we've got, so we're quite confident that he's not in any of the areas that we know he's got linkages to."
NT Police Commissioner Martin Dole is providing an update on the search for five-year-old Alice Springs girl Sharon Granites, who has been missing since Saturday night.
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How far could he have made it on foot with her? The terrain doesn’t look particularly easy to traverse.
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