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wo months of uncertainty for the family of Pip Manley ended last Friday, after dental records confirmed remains found earlier in the week belonged to the missing Bolwarra Heights man. Just 100 metres from where Mr Manley was last seen, officers searching scrubland on Belmore Road, Lorn on Wednesday found skeletal remains as well as clothing. Dental records later confirmed that the remains were that of Mr Manley. However, an autopsy conducted on Friday failed to determine the cause of death with a lack of bone fractures casting doubt over Mr Manley being the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Toxicology tests will now be conducted on tissue samples. The 21-year-old University of Newcastle student disappeared on November 21 when he failed to return home after being dropped at Telarah Train Station by his mother, Mary Manley. His father, Jonathon Manley, launched an appeal for information on January 6. “We were going to watch the Gabba test and have a steak together [the next day],” Mr Manley said at the time. However, it was not until close to three weeks after the plea that police obtained new information placing Mr Manley on Belmore Road at approximately 1am on November 22. Police were able to gain access to his Facebook account, and pieced together that he had left a friend’s home in Lorn, spoken to a woman and then
Grieving friends leave tributes for Pip Manley near where his body was discovered in Lorn last week continued the approximately two-kilometre walk home, a journey he frequently made. Acting on this information the search was launched at 8:30am on January 29, involving Polair, Police Divers, Marine Area Command, the Operational Support Group and the Dog Unit, with
a focus on land, waterways and dams in the Telarah, Lorn and Bolwarra areas. The remains were discovered at approximately 10:15am at the bottom of an incline on the eastern side of Belmore Road, near the Glenarvon Road intersection. A report was prepared for the Coroner.
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