Australia Australia - Rebecca Hayward, 35, Alice Springs, 2 Jan 2017

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NEARLY three weeks since mother-of-three Rebecca Hayward vanished in Alice Springs, her mother believes the 11-hour window between her last two sightings could shed light on her disappearance.


Rebecca was last seen walking along the Stuart Highway 16km north of Alice Springs on January 2, after she left her aunt’s Gillen property at 9pm the previous night.

Police launched an ariel and ground search with mounted unit, bikes and NTES volunteers.

The search failed to reveal any trace of Rebecca.
Two witnesses who spoke to Rebecca on the side of the Stuart Highway have been interviewed by police, one offered the 35-year-old a lift but she declined, Mrs Hayward said.

More at link: http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/centr...s/news-story/882f757e48a859f1fd16672e0553373b

 

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“The NT police haven’t given up the investigation on Rebecca and we’ll continue to do so and really we’re just looking for further information and further avenues of inquiry and we’ll do that to the best of our ability and we hope to find Rebecca sooner rather than later,” Senior Constable Easthope says.

 

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This month marks five years since his sister, 34-year-old Rebecca Hayward, was last seen walking on a remote roadside north of Alice Springs in January 2017. She has never been found.

Rebecca Hayward moved to Alice Springs from Perth in January 2017.(Supplied: Australian Federal Police)
Mr Hayward has recently returned to Perth after two years living in Alice Springs where, frustrated with the official police investigation into her mysterious disappearance, he took the search for answers into his own hands.

"I had to find out, I had to go and walk on that country. I can still picture that red dirt and the landscape. Beautiful country — but not ours," he said.

"I spoke to the lead detective, I spoke to community members, I spoke to people in Alice Springs.

"And my understanding of it was that they gave up far too easy."

Mr Hayward says his sister was a warm, happy-go-lucky woman who loved to laugh and could strike up a conversation with anyone. She was an emerging artist and a talented netballer.

But he says racial discrimination makes the justice system dismissive of cases involving Aboriginal women like Rebecca.
Police couldn't find his missing sister, so Eric Hayward moved to Central Australia to look for her himself

 

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Rebecca Hayward flew from Perth to Alice Springs on New Year's Day in 2017 to visit her family.

She left the family's house at around 8pm that evening to go for a walk, which wasn't out of the ordinary for a woman described as a "compulsive walker".

But she didn't return home and last seen by two doctors driving on the Stuart Highway around 15 kilometres north of Alice Springs at around 8.30am on January 2.

They offered water and a ride. She took the refreshment but declined the lift.

Ms Hayward is Indigenous with an olive complexion, 173 centimetres tall, medium build with long dark straight hair and brown eyes. She would be 40-years-old.

She was last seen wearing blue denim shorts rolled up to the knees with a green T-shirt and thongs.

Police hold grave concerns for her welfare.

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Sizeable sums of money have been offered for information.

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