Theo Hayez inquest: Backpackers at Cheeky Monkeys grilled over last night at ...

Theo Hayez inquest: Backpackers at Cheeky Monkeys grilled over last night at ...
Theo Hayez inquest: Backpackers at Cheeky Monkeys grilled over last night at ...

Backpackers who partied with Theo Hayez on the night he disappeared have been quizzed about a bearded man who approached their table at the bar.

During the fourth day of the inquest into the disappearance of the Belgian backpacker, two English travellers who attended Cheeky Monkeys nightclub with Theo on the final night he was seen alive appeared on videolink.

Elen Lloyd and Eden Parsons, who travelled together in Australia in 2019, had travelled on a shuttle bus from the WakeUp! Hostel into Bryon Bay township with Theo and three other travellers before making their way to the club.

Ms Lloyd and Ms Parsons told the inquest the decision was made to go to Cheeky Monkeys because Theo and the others had discount drink cards for the establishment.

CCTV footage shown to both backpackers from the interior of the club showed them sitting in a booth near the bar.

At one point more people arrive at the club, with a man with a beard approaching their table.

The man tried to engage the travellers in conversation while gesturing towards the bar.

The two English backpackers had arrived at the club along with Theo after a BBQ at the hostel, where Ms Parsons and another backpacker, Marlen Ilsmann from Germany, said they remember him and his friend Antoine drinking from a 'box of goon'

The two English backpackers had arrived at the club along with Theo after a BBQ at the hostel, where Ms Parsons and another backpacker, Marlen Ilsmann from Germany, said they remember him and his friend Antoine drinking from a 'box of goon'

Both women were quizzed as to whether they knew anything about the man or what he had said while standing at the table. 

'I would assume it was maybe something about how the [drink] card worked, or something... it doesn't jog a massive memory for me,' Ms Lloyd told the inquest.

'Elen and I tend to be friendly, excitable people so when people come up to us we engage rather than shy away so it could have been about anything to be honest,' Ms Parsons said of the interaction with the bearded man. 

It's not known who the bearded man is and Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting he is any way connected with the disappearance of Theo.

The girls had arrived at the club along with Theo after a BBQ at the hostel, where Ms Parsons and another backpacker, Marlen Ilsmann from Germany, said they remember him and his friend Antoine drinking from a 'box of goon'.  

'As far as I can remember he seemed really nice but not particularly

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