Grace ‘devastated’
officers were trying to find out where it had been, he said. He would not confirm what type of vehicle it was.
The last confirmed sighting of Millane was at the CityLife Hotel, in Queen St, at 9.41pm on Saturday, December 1.
Earlier yesterday, police said some of Millane’s belongings, including her passport, a pale pink Casio Baby-G watch and a silver necklace with a green stone in the middle, were missing from the hostel she was staying at.
Beard said: ‘‘That property is going to be somewhere, the clothing is going to be somewhere, we haven’t found it. Somebody may find it somewhere, we don’t know what has happened to it’’.
Officers have conducted a scene examination at an apartment at the CityLife Hotel and were trawling through ‘‘hundreds’’ of hours of CCTV footage as part of the investigation.
The 0800 investigation helpline number had received dozens of calls, and that information continued to be reviewed and assessed, Beard said.
Millane was on a year-long OE after graduating from the University of Lincoln in September.
The advertising graduate and keen artist arrived in New Zealand on November 20, after travelling through South America.
This was her first time travelling abroad alone. Her family described her as ‘‘funloving, outgoing and familyorientated’’ and yesterday morning, before the case became a homicide inquiry, said they were going through an extremely difficult and emotional time.
‘ Everyone who is a parent out there will understand and appreciate what that family is going through.’