A Kiwi teenager has been found dead in the south of England, just two days after posting on Facebook that she had been bothered by a stalker.
Seventeen-year-old Emily Longley, who grew up on Auckland’s North Shore, was found by police in a house on Queenswood Ave in Bournemouth on Saturday. She had been living in the town with a relative for the last couple of years.
It is not yet known what caused her death.
Police are speaking to a 19-year-old man and say they are urgently seeking witnesses who might have seen any suspicious behaviour.
Mark Longley says his daughter apparently died in her sleep, but the cause of her death remains a mystery.
"It is a huge shock to us, and Caroline [Ms Longley's mother] and I are going to England to try and find out what happened," he said.
"She was a beautiful girl and full of life, it is so tragic."
Friends told the New Zealand Herald that Emily’s Auckland-based parents had encouraged her to go to Britain to study, after she left Westlake Girls High School and fell in with the wrong crowd.
She returned for a visit a month ago, and friends said it seemed as if she was doing well in Bournemouth. She returned to England last week.
Emily posted to her Facebook profile on Thursday that she had a stalker, saying she had been receiving calls from a private number and was “really scared”.
“Someone just called me and i was like whos this? and they were like you dont know me but i know everything about you. and i was like how did you get my number and he was like ill tell you when i see you and kept asking me out. so i hung up and they wont stop calling," she wrote.
The next day, Emily posted that she was “down and out”. She was found dead 24 hours later.
A tribute page has been set up for Emily on Facebook
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