Bundaberg police to give update on missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop

Inspector Mansfield has been asked whereabouts the human remains have been found.

“The remains were found in bushland,” he says.

He was then asked if the remains were buried.

“We believe the remains were not buried,” Inspector Mansfield says.

Inspector Mansfield says the national park where the human remains were found is “vast” and is an “unforgiving terrain”.

“The second site is approximately 9 kilometres from the first but it  is within that area of the telecommunications data that we have looked at,” he says.

Inspector Mansfield has been asked if the co-accused helped police to establish the location of the human remains.

“We are engaging with legal representatives from both of those accused,” Inspector Mansfield says.

“This particular area that is being searched at the moment is an extension of our original search area.”

“We do hope that this development, coupled with the arrest [of James Wood and Tanika Bromley] in recent times, will bring some level of closure to Pheobe’s family,” Inspector Mansfield says.

Inspector Mansfield says additional testing and examination will occur during the day.

“Our forensic capabilities will hopefully be finished there today,” he says.

Police say they have contacted Pheobe’s family about their discovery of human remains.

“Understandably this has caused great distress to them. However [they are] supportive of the information that they have been receiving along the way”.

Inspector Mansfield says a crime scene has been established near a national park in Southern Queensland.

“They have been identified as being human remains,” he says.

Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield is expected to provide an update shortly on missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop.

This update comes after police say remains were found near a national park in Southern Queensland on Friday.