Perth GP’s disappearance a mystery as family learn she was never hiking on Bibbulmun Track

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Perth GP’s disappearance a enigma arsenic household larn she was ne'er hiking connected Bibbulmun Track

The household of a Perth pistillate not seen since December are hopeless for answers aft the find that she had not acceptable disconnected connected a radical hiking escapade precocious past twelvemonth arsenic planned.

Dr Nathalie Casal, 71, a retired GP from Gnangara, was past seen astatine her location connected December 6 soon earlier she said she was readying connected hiking the Bibbulmun Track with an organised group.

Dr Nathalie Casal, 71, told household she was going to locomotion the Bibbulmun Track successful December.

She told household and friends she was getting a assistance to commencement the hike astatine Mundaring Weir and since she was reported missing successful March this year, constabulary person focused their probe connected the track, adjacent saying she had been sighted successful a southbound westbound municipality buying for supplies.

But present that accusation appears to beryllium incorrect and her lad Ramon Casal, who reported his parent missing 3 months aft she near her home, does not judge she ever went hiking astatine all.

“The Bibbulmun Track probe has turned up nothing,” helium said.

“There’s nary grounds that she ever started hiking connected the way either with oregon without a group.”

Ramon describes his parent telling radical she was going hiking erstwhile she wasn’t arsenic a “white lie” and says she was a secretive idiosyncratic who preferred to stay private.

It wasn’t until aft constabulary started investigating her disappearance past period that Ramon and his member discovered their parent had been diagnosed with a superior illness.

He present thinks it whitethorn person been a catalyst for her disappearance.

“She could beryllium described arsenic eccentric - a spot of a brainsick vertebrate lady,” helium said.

“She was obsessed with cockatoos and she was precise alarmed astir the bulldozing of cockatoo habitats, peculiarly the Gnangara conifer plantation close connected her doorstep. And she was besides acrophobic astir the different conifer forests successful that corridor of habitat. So it’s imaginable that she was trying to instrumentality immoderate benignant of drastic enactment to prevention the cockatoos.”

Dr Nathalie Casal’s household are disquieted astir her whereabouts.

Dr Casal had been successful occupation with authorities for her en masse feeding of chaotic cockatoos connected her property, a pastime that gained her a mediocre estimation with neighbours. Previously, portion moving arsenic a GP successful the Pilbara, she was good known for redeeming babe kangaroos that had mislaid their parents to hunters and astatine 1 constituent had astir 50 roaming successful and retired of her home.

“My benignant of hypothesis, and this is speculation only, is that perchance to marque immoderate benignant of past basal against the bulldozing, she has undertaken a precise literal ‘over my dormant body’ stance,” Ramon said.

Ramon does not judge his parent is inactive live and concedes it does look arsenic though she does not privation to beryllium recovered arsenic she near down a mobile phone, deactivated a Facebook account, cancelled immoderate utilities and sold disconnected idiosyncratic items.

Despite that, Ramon said her disappearance was distressing and helium hoped anyone with accusation astir her whereabouts would travel guardant to help.

With the constabulary probe into Dr Casal’s disappearance present astatine a standstill, her household has contacted the WA Coroner’s Court to effort and escalate the investigation.

“Our household is successful ineligible limbo,” Ramon said.

“We person nary mode to instrumentality attraction of my mother’s spot and affairs portion her lawsuit remains open. The concern hasn’t fixed america due breathing abstraction to bespeak connected her beingness and find meaning from it. Help from the nationalist successful getting closure would beryllium invaluable, since backlogs for coronial inquests into missing persons are distressing to work about.”

Anyone who has seen Dr Casal, oregon has immoderate accusation successful narration to her whereabouts, is urged to interaction Police connected 131 444.

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