Melburnians came to know Isla Bell through her family’s intense search for her. Now it has ended in tragedy, but they are determined to champion her memory.
For six weeks, Isla Bell’s face was plastered on electricity poles, street lights and bus shelters in Melbourne’s north. She became the girl everyone knew as “missing” — but to her loved ones, she was so much more.
“An amazing artist, permaculturalist, fashion designer and appreciator. She had the deepest empathy for all life forms,” her mother Justine Spokes told“A plant and animal talker, she was also a loyal and trustworthy friend. Deeply spiritual, a free spirit and the kindest, most generous human.“An exquisitely beautiful soul, she understood the depth and breadth of this cruel world. She was my deepest, closest friend and soul connection.
She had dreams of becoming a marine biologist, and was vocal and passionate about social justice, climate change and environmental destruction — a trait she absorbed from her parents, who met campaigning for forests.After she disappeared, her family and friends worked tirelessly to find her, setting up social media pages, blanketing Melbourne’s inner north with posters and continuously pleading with the public to track down the teenager.
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