On Monday, the 20-year-old Mary Kate Heys of Manchester has told the media about how she was allegedly kidnapped from a hostel at Queensland's Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast. She has claimed to local media her alleged kidnapper was possibly mentally unstable or may have been influenced by drugs and it triggered her to initially want to help him.
On Tuesday, Queensland Police has confirmed to the Mirror that on Monday, officers intercepted a 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man in Gympie (90km north of Mooloolaba). A spokesperson from Queensland Police Station said the man was taken to a hospital's mental health unit. "What happened basically was they have gotten in a vehicle down at the Sunshine Coast and driven up to Gympie, the QPS spokesman added.
The QPS spokesperson further said that Heys was being held against her will and the act was a deprivation of liberty job. Officers have then pulled the vehicle over in Gympie. The authorities have spoken to both parties involved and he was taken to the mental health unit of a hospital after that.
There was no further action from the police's end since Heys said she didn't want to press any charges against the man nor take any further action on it, the Daily Mail reported. According to Heys, her kidnapper kept talking about how the aliens were coming to get them and they had to get to Cairns to escape. "I thought I was going to die, I was so scared," Heys told the paper.
She secretly texted her dad saying not to worry but she knew getting a message like that would scare him. While pretending she's using Maps in order to secretly send messages to her father, Heys texted her dad to call Australian police and she gave him her location using Google maps. Queensland then quickly responded and pulled the car over in Gympie. Heys was rescued 50 miles away from her apartment in Queensland.
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