Niamh MAYE

DOB:

21/06/1983

HAIR:

Brown

BUILD:

Medium

EYES:

Brown

CIRCUMSTANCES:

Niamh was last seen at Tumut on 27 March 2002. It is believed she may have attempted to hitch hike to Cootamundra. Niamh has not been seen or heard from since that date and there are grave concerns for her safety and welfare.

Reported missing to: Tumut Police Station.

Parents' agony: three calls a week to three weeks without word

By Brigid Delaney - SMH
April 19 2002

"Totally out of character" ... Brian and Anne Maye with a photograph of their missing daughter Niamh yesterday. Photo: Robert Pearce

In the catalogue of parents' fears, surely this is one of the greatest. Your youngest child has gone missing, maybe while hitchhiking, and her bank accounts have not been touched.

In the maelstrom of distress and anguish there are thing to attend to: talking to her friends, liaising with police and fronting a media conference, where, flanked by police, you distribute her photo and tell her story.

Brian and Anne Maye travelled to Sydney from their home in Armidale yesterday to do just that.

Their daughter, Niamh Maye, 18, has been missing for 19 days. Mrs Maye said Niamh had last contacted her family just before Easter, when she phoned to say she would travel from Batlow, near Tumut, to her sister's house in Sydney. She did not arrive.

Police are investigating what happened after a black HT Holden hearse dropped Niamh in Tumut at about 1pm on Easter Sunday, March 31.