Family members of missing backpacker Theo Hayez are on their way to Australia to attend the Coroner's Inquest into the young man's disappearance, which is due to begin later this month.
Theo was at the end of a six-month holiday around Australia when he went out for a drink on 31 May with a friend in Byron Bay, never to be seen again.
Despite a long and intensive police investigation and several massive land and sea searches of the Northern Rivers area and the North Coast, the young man's disappearance remains a mystery.
The search for Theo did, however, lead police to the remains of a young woman, Thea Liddle, who had been living a transient lifestyle when she disappeared from the Northern Rivers area in October 2019.
