Rabbi speaks out on being final individual to see murdered 14-year-old

A Tasmanian man has revealed he was one of many final individuals to see lacking lady Shyanne-Lee Tatnell alive.

Shyanne-Lee, 14, was final seen in Launceston nearly three months in the past.

A large police search took a flip final week when stays — later confirmed to be the teenager’s — had been found on a distant bush monitor close to Nabowla in Tasmania’s northeast.

Yochanan Gordon, a Launceston-based rabbi, says he noticed the younger lady the day she disappeared on April 30 whereas he was heading again from delivering provides to a homeless household staying in his pal’s yard.

He drove throughout the Henry St Bridge and again at about 8:30 p.m. — roughly the identical time Shyanne-Lee is believed to have left a youth hostel to go to a pal.

“Shyanne-Lee was strolling down the hill from Ravenswood, and it turned out to be the final time she was seen alive,” Mr Gordon shared in a put up on-line.

“This made me one of many final individuals to have seen her alive.”

“This heartbreaking story deeply affected me,” he added.

The final confirmed sighting of {the teenager} was as she walked close to the North Esk River the evening she disappeared.

CCTV of Shyanne-Lee taken from the bridge was launched by police as they sought details about her whereabouts. Mr. Gordon instantly contacted police. There is no such thing as a suggestion of wrongdoing on his half.

“I don’t suppose something I can say about my drive that night might help the household of Shyanne-Lee within the troublesome time they’re going via,” he informed Channel 7.

Final week, Christopher Mark Jordan, a reclusive farmer and dad-of-one, was arrested and charged with Shyanne-Lee’s homicide.

The 36-year-old man was pleasant and well-liked, in accordance with his neighbors, who mentioned they couldn’t imagine he was on the centre of such severe allegations.

One neighbor informed the Daily Mail he had been on pleasant phrases with Mr. Jordan and had “by no means had an issue with him”.

Police will allege Mr. Jordan got here throughout Shyanne-Lee someday after she was final noticed by the river.

He then allegedly took {the teenager} again to his property in Scottsdale, a 64.5km drive northeast from town, alongside a poorly lit nation highway winding via farmland and forest.

Later that evening, Mr. Jordan allegedly killed Shyanne-Lee at his residence earlier than dumping her physique alongside a distant bushland monitor in Nabowla.

Mr. Jordan didn’t make an software for bail when his matter was talked about in court docket on Friday. He is because of reappear in court docket on August 16 over video hyperlink.