Queensland police release footage showing moment James Wood is arrested for alleged murder of Pheobe Bishop
Queensland police have released footage that shows the moment detectives told Pheobe Bishop’s housemate he was being charged with her alleged murder.
James Wood, 34, was arrested in Bundaberg at 7.20pm on Thursday night — three weeks to the day after Pheobe, 17, went missing.
Mr Wood’s partner Tanika Bromley, 33 — who also lived in the rundown Gin Gin property with Pheobe — was also arrested on Thursday.
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Police on Thursday alleged that Pheobe’s body was moved on “more than one occasion”.
And they released body camera footage showing the moment Mr Wood was arrested and told he was being charged with Pheobe’s murder.
The video shows Mr Wood, dressed in grey tracksuit pants and a tight-fitting T-shirt, being escorted from a caravan littered with mess and being taken outside.
“Just listen to me,” one of the detectives can be heard saying in the video, before identifying themselves as a detective-sergeant from Bundaberg police.
“I’m placing you under arrest for the homicide of Pheobe Bishop,” he says.
The footage then shows Mr Wood in the back seat of a police car before the door is closed.
Pheobe’s sister Kaylea made an impassioned plea outside of the Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday after Mr Wood and Ms Bromley had their first mentions.
She told reporters her sister was “loved and missed” and pleaded for anyone with information about her body — which has not been found — to come forward.
“I don’t know what to say, but if you’ve got any information about Pheobe, or the car or anything like that, just come forward,” Kaylea said.
“Three weeks is too long for us, as a family and all of her friends.
“We just want her home. She was loved and she’s missed dearly.”
Pheobe was last seen by the housemates, who told police they were driving her to Bundaberg Airport from their home in Gin Gin in Ms Bromley’s grey Hyundai ix35 on May 15.
The teenager had intended to fly from Bundaberg to Brisbane, then on to Perth to see her boyfriend.
She never boarded the flight.
