He has repeated the assertion that authorities were “not ruling out” any possible cause for Cleo’s disappearance.
Inspector Munday said on Sunday he was not “at liberty to divulge what else may be missing”. Police revealed that Cleo’s sleeping bag was also missing from the family’s campsite, but had remained tight lipped on what else may have been removed. The campsite’s desolate surroundings combined with deteriorating conditions had heightened concerns for Cleo’s wellbeing, Inspector Munday said.Ĭleo’s mum Ellie Smith and her partner Jake Gliddon. Inspector Jon Munday revealed on 6PR Tuesday morning the bad weather had thrown an additional “spanner in the works”. She was last seen at 1.30am on Saturday and was gone by the time her family woke at 6am. The four-year-old has now been missing for four days after disappearing from the campsite.
Search efforts were resumed just after 1pm (local time). Ground and aircrews were stood down in some areas after it was deemed too unsafe to continue searching in the consistent heavy wind and rain. News of the final interaction came as the search for Cleo was temporarily suspended due to bad weather Tuesday morning. The final interaction Cleo had with her family before mysteriously disappearing was at 1.30am at a campsite at the Blowholes Campground in Macleod, about 50km north of Carnarvon, when she asked for the drink of water, WA Police confirmed. Search temporarily interrupted by bad weather “Everyone asks us what we need and all we need is our little girl home,” she said. Since Cleo’s disappearance, Ms Smith said the family hadn’t slept but still felt completely “hopeless and out of control”. Ms Smith, who grew up camping in the area, immediately started searching around the campsite, before getting in the car and “driving around everywhere”. “It was about 30 centimetres from open … I turned to Jake and said: ‘Cleo’s gone’,” she said. Ms Smith said the “tent was completely open” when she woke at 6am. Picture: 7 NewsĬleo’s sleeping bag was also missing when the couple woke up. It comes after Cleo’s family spoke publicly about the four-year-old’s mysterious disappearance for the first time since she vanished from a campsite early Saturday morning.Ĭleo's mum Ellie Smith and her partner Jake Gliddon have broken their silence. “You wouldn’t expect a four-year-old to take the sleeping bag with them,” she said.
She said that one of the strangest details was that Cleo’s sleeping bag also vanished. He said the search and rescue mission would continue until police were satisfied that a thorough search in and around the Blowholes area was complete.Ĭriminologist points to concerning detail in caseĪ leading criminologist has pointed to one of the most concerning details in the mysterious disappearance of Cleo Smith.ĭr Xanthe Mallett told Sunrise on Wednesday morning that, given that she has not been found in the surrounding bushland to where she went missing, it looks increasingly likely that the four-year-old was taken. While we have homicide detectives there, we’re not ruling anything in or out.” “We’re not going to be narrow-minded in what we a theorising here, we are considering every permeatation. “We want to assure Cleo’s family and the broader community that police are throwing everything we can at this,” he said. Mr Dawson said the case was the biggest currently unfolding in the state, with dozens of personnel including police, rangers, the SES, army and mounted police working to find Cleo. He also implored the public to not speculate on the cause of Cleo’s disappearance. We also have broadened out any vehicles and transport in and around the area, in case there’s a possibility that she may have been taken in a vehicle,” Mr Dawson said. “We take advice from health practitioners in terms of survivability should Cleo had been on foot.
He told reporters “no stone will be left unturned” and nothing was being ruled out, detailing that a variety of scenarios were being closely examined with the help of subject matter experts.
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Commissioner of Police Chris Dawson repeated the assertion in WA’s daily coronavirus update on Wednesday that every possible avenue was being thoroughly investigated in the search for Cleo.
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