They say they have received ‘very credible information’ in relation to Lisa’s suspected murder.ĭetective Sergeant Shane Russell was asked by Ben Harvey if he believes he will find Lisa’s body.Īs I concluded Lisa’s story in 2021, the Western Australian government announced the reward for information about Lisa’s disappearance and presumed murder has been increased to $1 million. The Cold Case Homicide Squad went back to Kalgoorlie and re-interviewed their persons of interest. To further put pressure on those who police suspect are involved, properties owned by the Club Deroes were raided in Kalgoorlie and Perth. Ian would locate something of interest with the detector then Pat would get down on her hands and knees and dig at the dirt, searching for her buried child. If her clothes had something metal attached, like a zipper, belt buckle, buttons, bra wire, jewellery, then the metal detector just might pick that up. Pat and Ian have since been to Kalgoorlie with metal detectors, scouring the red dirt in the hope of locating Lisa’s remains. He was panicking, and while he was out searching, he fell from his bike, injuring himself, and went to Kalgoorlie hospital. Tim rode around Kalgoorlie on his motorcycle, looking for Lisa. He called police on the Friday morning but police told him they were unable to do anything about a missing person for two days. He was immediately worried and tried to report Lisa as missing to Kalgoorlie Police. When Tim finished work, he came home to find no sign of Lisa. Pat isn’t sure if Lisa would have chosen to walk home or hailed another taxi. If someone says don’t do it, I’ll do it.’ Lisa lived about 10 minutes’ walk from the Foundry Hotel. ‘I’ve been stubborn like that, in my day, too. I asked Pat if she thought Lisa was being rebellious when she decided to ignore Tim’s pleas for her to head home, and deliberately stayed out longer, and Pat said she thought she probably was. We were even speaking to one of the reporters about Lisa and she was a lovely girl, expecting her second baby and she told us that she often went there.’ It wasn’t regarded as a dangerous place, and in a town where the main source of employment – the mine – operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the clubhouse was just another venue for shiftworkers to go to when they finished work, when the usual pubs were closed, if they knew someone to invite them.’ When the pubs and nightclubs closed, they all used to go to the bikie club. ‘A lot of the young people in Kalgoorlie went there. Pat thinks it’s less unusual than people may think that her daughter went to the clubhouse. Police have interviewed this man extensively and have stated he is not a suspect. This information was not known by Lisa’s family at all until very recently. That man told police he was expecting Lisa to meet him at his home that morning, after she left the Safari, and when she did not turn up he rang her repeatedly. They caught a taxi, which took them a short distance, but Lisa asked the taxi driver to take her back to the Safari, as she wanted to see her female friend, who had been out the front of the club. Lisa left the Safari with that work colleague, known as ‘the bald man’, at 4.45am. CCTV shows her mingling with other patrons inside and outside the club. Lisa moved on to the Safari Nightclub in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie. She started her night out at the Exchange Hotel, where she met a work colleague. Lisa had dropped him there in the ute, as it was pouring rain at the time he started work. Boyfriend Tim was at work at the mine, doing a 12-hour shift. On Thursday October 7, 1999, Lisa went out with some work friends. Pat remembers with a laugh ringing Lisa and saying, “What time is it in Kalgoorlie?” It felt like 10,000 miles from suburban Perth. Lisa called her parents every week, and when Ginette got her first mobile phone she and Lisa would text each other all the time. It was the first time she’d been away from them, and she was now almost 600 kilometres away. It couldn’t have been more different to her life in Lancashire, UK, and it was also difficult living so far from her family and friends in Perth. Her sister Ginette thinks Lisa liked living in Kalgoorlie, but it was hard at times. They set up house and Lisa worked at a couple of jobs, in a gift shop and also at night at the mine as a spotter, guiding the enormous trucks. Lisa Govan and her boyfriend moved from their home in Perth to the mining town of Kalgoorlie. The following is an extract from Vanished: The true stories from families of Australian missing people, by Nicole Morris, available via Big Sky Publishing.
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