ACT and NSW police join forces to pursue lead in missing persons case from 2008
The ACT currently has 14 long term missing people and now, police say they've received fresh information on one of the cases. Police in the Territory have joined forces with officers across the border in New South Wales in the hope of finding answers.
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00:00The faces of Canberrans who have never come home.
00:06One of them, mother of two Laura Hayworth, now, after more than 16 years missing, new
00:12information has come to light.
00:14Police have received information to lead us to suspect she met with foul play.
00:18The then 23-year-old was last seen when she left her friend's house in Queanbeyan on Saturday
00:23January 5, 2008.
00:26She said she was going to work, but never arrived.
00:29On January 18, her red Mazda 121 was found at the Canangra Court Flats in Reid.
00:35Despite extensive investigations at the time and over the years, Laura has never been located.
00:42We believe there are people in the community that have information about Laura's disappearance.
00:47ACT and NSW Police have now joined forces to investigate her disappearance.
00:52I'd love to find Laura, I'd love to reunite her with her family, but as I said we have
00:56grave concerns for her welfare.
00:58I'm extremely optimistic that our joint resources will be able to find the family some answers.
01:04The weekend Laura Hayworth went missing coincided with the Summonats Car Festival in Canberra,
01:10which prompted police to appeal to attendees for information earlier this year.
01:14They're now making a renewed appeal to the wider public, hoping someone might hold answers.
01:20Any information, no matter how big or how small, could be relevant and could be the
01:23key to solving Laura's disappearance.
01:27I'm extremely confident someone out there knows what happened to Laura.
01:31All we need them to do is make that phone call.
01:33A call that could bring closure to loved ones waiting for answers.