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Father of missing Cleo Smith ‘speaks with police’ after visiting station for three hours

Father of missing Cleo Smith 'speaks with police' after visiting station for three hours 2

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The biological father of missing four-year-old girl Cleo Smith has spent three hours speaking with police on Monday. 

It’s been three days since the child vanished from a remote campsite in Western Australia and so far there are no signs of what happened to the little girl, despite an exhaustive land, sea and air search. 

Channel Seven News reported that Daniel Staines was at work this morning before he was asked to come into Mandurah Station to give a statement.

He did so willingly with his parents by his side and there is no suggestion he has anything to do with his daughter’s disappearance. 

Cleo Smith (pictured) was last seen at about 1:30am by her parents after an 'interaction' but when they woke up at 6am she was nowhere to been seen

Cleo Smith (pictured) was last seen at about 1:30am by her parents after an ‘interaction’ but when they woke up at 6am she was nowhere to been seen 

Police made a desperate plea for anyone who visited a remote campsite in Western Australia where a four-year-old girl went missing to come forward, as marine search teams are scaled back.

Investigators want anyone who was anywhere near the Blowholes campsite on the coast at Macleod, north of Carnarvon, and may have seen anything suspicious over a 72-hour period to contact police – particularly if they have dashcam footage.  

Cleo Smith was last seen at about 1:30am by her parents after an ‘interaction’ but when they woke up at 6am she was nowhere to been seen and her sleeping bag was also missing.

Details of the interaction have not been revealed. 

Police are urging anyone who was in the area from Friday all the way through to Sunday, to try and remember if they may have seen anything unusual.

Police have released an image of Cleo's sleeping bag and are urging members of the public to come forward if they have seen it

Police have released an image of Cleo’s sleeping bag and are urging members of the public to come forward if they have seen it

‘We are really interested in anybody who was at The Blowholes campsite from Friday the 15th of October through to Sunday,’ Inspector John Munday who is leading the police search told reporters on Monday.

‘You don’t even have to have stayed here, even if you just passed through. We need to speak to you… so we can track and trace where people were.

‘And if anybody has any dashcam footage or any footage at all of the area we really would be interested in those people coming forward.’       

Authorities have now released aerial footage of the campsite as they scour the remote bushland in search of the missing girl amid fears the child may have been abducted. 

The camp ground is located 75km from Carnarvon and 875km from Perth with nothing but bushland and scrubs in between.

The campsite is bordered by the ocean on one side and desolate, rugged terrain on the other. 

A desperate search for a missing four-year-old girl has entered its third day with police releasing footage of the remote campsite (pictured) where she disappeared

A desperate search for a missing four-year-old girl has entered its third day with police releasing footage of the remote campsite (pictured) where she disappeared 

Police are probing all possibilities of Cleo's mystery disappearance - including kidnapping - and have been scouring bushland and stopping cars and caravans in search of the missing girl

Police are probing all possibilities of Cleo’s mystery disappearance – including kidnapping – and have been scouring bushland and stopping cars and caravans in search of the missing girl 

Cleo Smith, four, was last seen at about 1.30am on Saturday at the Blowholes campsite on the coast at Macleod, north of Carnarvon, in Western Australia

Cleo Smith, four, was last seen at about 1.30am on Saturday at the Blowholes campsite on the coast at Macleod, north of Carnarvon, in Western Australia 

One of the theories was that young Cleo may have wandered off towards the water and was washed away by the rising tide.

But exhaustive marine searches have so far found no evidence she entered the water.

‘The searches we have done for this marine environment are the best we can get and they have done the best they can and in that environment we haven’t found any sign of Cleo,’ Inspector Munday said.

‘And that marine search has been scaled back at this time.’

Police have not ruled out the possibility that Cleo was abducted, with officers stopping cars and caravans to search the vehicles.   

Detectives from the homicide squad have also been called into to scour the area.  

Locals have been told to check garbage bins and roadsides for a grey and red sleeping bag used by Cleo at the time she went missing.

Cleo Smith, four, was last seen at about 1.30am on Saturday at the Blowholes campsite on the coast at Macleod, north of Carnarvon, in Western Australia (pictured, the campsite Cleo went missing from)

Cleo Smith, four, was last seen at about 1.30am on Saturday at the Blowholes campsite on the coast at Macleod, north of Carnarvon, in Western Australia (pictured, the campsite Cleo went missing from)

A frantic search is underway after Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent during the early hours of Saturday morning. Pictured: Cleo in the outfit she was wearing when she went  missing

A frantic search is underway after Cleo Smith disappeared from her family’s tent during the early hours of Saturday morning. Pictured: Cleo in the outfit she was wearing when she went  missing

Cleo Smith went missing while camping with her family at the Blowholes campsite near Carnarvon in Western Australia (pictured, four-year-old Cleo left with mum Ellie)

Cleo Smith went missing while camping with her family at the Blowholes campsite near Carnarvon in Western Australia (pictured, four-year-old Cleo left with mum Ellie)

The young girl was last seen wearing pink one-piece pyjamas with a blue and yellow pattern when she was last seen. 

A full scale search took place on Saturday and began again from first light on Sunday.

The crews consisted of land, air and sea teams searching the coastline in and around campgrounds nearby where the family was staying.

Posters have also been put up at roadhouses within a 1,000km radius of the campsite and police are poring over dash camera footage and CCTV footage from the area. 

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