A $250,000 reward has been announced for information leading to an arrest and conviction regarding the disappearance of Niamh Maye in 2002, or for information that leads to the discovery of her remains. Today would've been her 40th birthday. 9News MORE:
Maye - from Armidale in NSW's Northern Tablelands - has been missing for 21 years, ever since she vanished at the age 18 in what detectives suspect were sinister circumstances.announced a $250,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction into Maye's disappearance, or for information that leads to the discovery of her remains.On Easter Saturday, 2002, Maye, then 18, had been fruit-picking with friends near the NSW-Victorian border.
She was booked to catch a bus north from Batlow to Cootamundra and then a train to Sydney, to spend Easter with her family.Nobody has ever been charged over her disappearance, however, police believe she met with foul play.A coronial inquest in 2012 found that Maye had died at or near Tumut in the NSW Riverina, on or around March 30, 2002.
In 2020, Maye's sister, Fionnuala Hagerty, made a public appeal for any information that could help uncover what happened to her. "I was only 20 at the time and I think I had some naive optimism that maybe we would still find her, but realistically we knew immediately when she didn't get on that bus that something had gone wrong," Hagerty said.Continue reading
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