Pheobe Bishop 's mum has told how she has been "ripped apart" after police discovered a body in search of the missing teen.

The 17-year-old vanished after failing to check in for her flight at Bundaberg Regional Airport in Queensland on the morning of May 15. The search for the teenager gripped the nation and earlier this week, her flatmates James and Tanika Bromley were arrested and charged with one count of murder and two counts each of interfering with a corpse.

On Friday, a body was discovered close to the Good Night Scrub National Park, near Gin Gin, in Queensland .

State police said: "The remains are yet to be formally identified; however, investigators are in contact with the family of missing 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop ."

The teenager's heartbroken mum, Kylie Johynson, wr

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