After finishing top of her year at her high school, teenager Niamh Maye left her home in Armidale, NSW on February 14, 2002, for a gap-year working holiday, fruit picking in the south of the state. Weeks later, the 18-year-old disappeared while trying to make her way home for Easter, in what has become an enduring source of despair for her family.
“She was looking forward to studying and travelling – on the cusp of adult life,” Niamh’s sister Susan Maye tells WHO from her home in Melbourne.