Missing Cleo Smith update: Map shows how far child may have gone in WA

Missing Cleo Smith update: Map shows how far child may have gone in WA
Missing Cleo Smith update: Map shows how far child may have gone in WA

Cleo Smith could have been driven eight hours away from the campsite she was last seen at in the time between when she went missing and before police were called - as detectives investigate whether the four-year-old was abducted.

A map showing the possible roads she may have travelled on has suggested she could have reached as far as Tom Price just over eight hours north-east of the Blowholes camping ground near Carnarvon in WA where she vanished from in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Cleo may also have been driven south with the town of Kalbarri, five hours away, also a possible area she may have passed through, as is the suburb of Meekatharra, 670km south-east.

The Minilya Roadhouse is around 165km north of the campsite and is on the only northbound road away from Blowholes and records every vehicle that passes through.

It's understood police are investigating the CCTV taken from the roadhouse. 

A map showing the possible roads Cleo Smith travelled in the time between when she went missing and police were called suggests the four-year-old could have been taken eight hours away

A map showing the possible roads Cleo Smith travelled in the time between when she went missing and police were called suggests the four-year-old could have been taken eight hours away

The missing four-year-old was last seen in the early hours of Saturday morning in a tent shared with her parents

The missing four-year-old was last seen in the early hours of Saturday morning in a tent shared with her parents

The four-year-old girl, wearing pink pyjamas, was last seen by her parents at about 1.30am on Saturday in the family's tent at the camping grounds.

By the time her mother Ellie Smith and step father Jake Gliddon woke up at about 6:30am, she was nowhere to be found - with the tent zip leaving the entrance open. 

It was at least another three hours before police were called with officers arriving 'mid-morning Saturday'.

WA Police Inspector Jon Munday said little Cleo was too short to reach the zipper of the tent entrance, which was found hanging open by her mother at 6.30am.

He said the height of the zip opening on the tent was a major piece of evidence that could point to the possibility Cleo has been deliberately taken from the tent while her parents slept. 

'The positioning of that zipper for the flap is

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