As police searched for missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop earlier this year, a 30-year-old man was allegedly using her mobile phone.
Bishop was reported missing after she failed to board a flight in Bundaberg to visit her boyfriend in Western Australia on May 15, prompting a massive search involving sniffer dogs, the SES and police divers.
Her housemates James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, were charged with murder and interfering with a corpse on June 5. The trio had lived about 4½ hours north of Brisbane in Gin Gin, just outside Bundaberg.
Bishop’s body was discovered the next day in remote bushland in the Good Night Scrub National Park – 60 kilometres south-west of Bundaberg.
A month later, police charged Kieran Daniel Mittelheuser, 30, with two counts of accessory after the fact to murder, alleging he used Bishop’s phone while detectives were searching for her.
This week, Mittelheuser applied for bail in the Supreme Court of Queensland in Brisbane. He had been on remand for 157 days.
Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop.
Mittelheuser was additionally charged with attempting to interfere with the course of justice last month.
Justice Tom Sullivan refused Mittelheuser’s application for bail on Friday.
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