Counsel assisting the Coroner Joseph Crawfoot told the court Mr Penno-Tompsett drove their car - a red Nissan Pulsar - erratically around the town before he was last seen by Mr Tattersall walking off into a fenced paddock on the outskirts of town. Mr Crawfoot said mobile phone data showed this happened sometime between 7-11.20am. Mr Tattersall continued on to Cairns, but Mr Crawfoot said concerns were raised on New Year s Day when Mr Penno-Tompsett failed to arrive. Jayden Penno-Tompsett was reportedly last seen on Stock Route Road, which is a semi-rural area on the outskirts of Charters Towers.
Fresh details surrounding the tragic last moments of a young man who went missing in the Australian outback have been shared in court.
Jayden Penno-Tompsett, 22, was on road trip from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Cairns when he vanished without a trace near the remote town of Charters Towers, north Queensland, on New Year s Eve in 2017.
Mr Penno-Tompsett and his friend Lucas Tattersall were driving 26 hours north in a red Nissan Pulsar to meet friends and family for the end of year celebrations.
A pre-inquest conference at the Cairns Coroner s Court heard Mr Penno-Tompsett suffered a sudden and acute decompression in his mental health early on December 31, Cairns Post reported.
During a brief opening, Ms Hyde s barrister Andrea Lawrence said the initial one-day inquest held a year after the tragedy in 1973 was cursory and perfunctory and left the family dissatisfied . Enid s family was concerned the 1973 inquest leaves them with more questions than answers about their mother s disappearance, she said. (The findings) are telling for what they are not and what they omit. She told the court Ms Hyde rarely drank alcohol, could not swim and was scared of the water, and was a good mother to her six children - none of which was highlighted in the original inquest findings.
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