Tim Watkins was only 22 years old when he was left for dead by
the side of Wilsons Creek Road earlier this year.
He was riding his bicycle home from a mates' house shortly
after midnight on a road he often travelled. At some point, he was
hit by a passing motorist, who fled the scene. When Tim's body
was discovered about 9am the next morning, paramedics and police
pronounced him dead at the scene.
It was an incident that shocked the small, tight-knit community
of Mullumbimby, on the far north coast of New south Wales, where
Tim lived. Police launched an investigation two days after the
discovery of Tim's body, searching for both the vehicle and the
driver.
In the weeks that followed, local authorities, friends and
family made various public pleas for information. Someone in the
community was so incensed that they graffitied a sign on the road
near where Tim's body was found,
with the words 'Fess Up'.
