 Can you tell us about what police discovered this morning? Yes, at 1.36 this morning the Quinton ambulance service received a phone call from a person who was reporting an unconscious woman in a bus shelter near the Camerangar-Olsmithfield Road intersection. The ambulance subsequently attended and transported the woman to hospital. That woman is in a very serious condition and her prognosis is poor. Now it appears as though the circumstances of this woman's condition are suspicious and we have established a major incident room to investigate the circumstances surrounding this apparent assault of the victim. Now we are having difficulties at the moment identifying the woman. We are unaware of who she is. She has no identification or anything on her that has assisted the identification today. So we are requesting assistance from the community to help us identify this person. Also we wish to identify the person who was driving past and reported the incident. There appears to be an older male who advised he was on his way home from work and has checked on the person's welfare and has reported it to the ambulance service. We don't know who that person is. He called from the nearby phone booth. That's right. The person made a phone call from a public phone near the freshwater connection railway station. Now the call was terminated and subsequently the ambulance service has attended and found the woman who was alone. This woman is described as an Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander woman. She appears to be about 25 years of age but maybe younger, maybe slightly older. She is of normal build and height with what is possibly child length black hair. What she was wearing was a highly distinctive t-shirt which has in large letters the words love is the new drug. Now we believe the t-shirt is going to be certainly a large prompt to someone's memory and a will we believe largely assist in identifying the woman. But we've conducted a door knock today within the area out of freshwater and to date no information has been elicited to assist the investigation or the person's identity. What makes you think she was assaulted? She has an injury to her face and subsequent brain injuries which certainly indicates that is a possibility. It doesn't appear to be any other form of misadventure. There's no other associated injuries so it appears at this stage and the early stage of the investigation that it is the product of some form of assault. Now where that assault occurs we don't know. It hasn't necessarily occurred in the bus shelter where she was located. Has she just fallen over or been hit by a car? Look certainly we would discount being struck by a vehicle because we'd expect larger more extensive injuries. Going over is a possibility but again there's nothing that they're abrasions or anything with it in conjunction with the injury which would suggest that. So in the way she was seated in the bus shelter suggests that maybe she was more placed there but there's a whole series of assumptions you could make but presently we don't know. How was she seated upright? Now we believe she was seated on the concrete in slumped against the seat. That's why we would like to speak to this person who first came across her prior to the aim of us to see how she was when he found her. Is it suspicious that I mean maybe I don't know he was driving by could have had a mobile or what not. Is it suspicious that he went to a pay phone to call? Oh well look who knows you know not everyone in the community has a mobile phone. But the fact that maybe he didn't want to be identified? Oh look it's pure speculation we don't know. Certainly he's on the face of it he's done the right thing. Certainly I've listened to the call and it sounds like someone genuinely concerned for the welfare of this person but obviously we need to speak to identify that person. So the information they provided with the ambulances that they were driving home from work and they've saw the person slumped in the bus shelter. Here's a detailed description I know you already have but another one about the t-shirt and the colours of the riding and the colour of the t-shirt. Well I will have an image of the shirt which I will show to you but the t-shirt it's a black t-shirt it's a girl express brand which is sold from KMAP and it is in multi colours and but it's very large very prominent on the front of the shirt she was wearing black shorts and when found she there's no footwear. So it's possible that she lives relatively close to the within the in the freshwater area environments that's a possibility there are there is limited other evidence or blood loss within the environment which suggests possibly it has occurred elsewhere but again until we identify this person it's difficult to move progress the investigation door knocking around how shocked of resonance being to hear of these I will look they're concerned obviously it's not that far from the Maria Ball murder site so so yes it's yeah it's obviously shocking is there a warning at all to residents I mean walking early in the morning or being out so well look look no until we know what the circumstances are it's it's difficult you know to provide any specific warnings and some warnings may not be necessary in this circumstance you know until the investigation unfolds we won't know what the circumstances are she appears to be 25 that but that could be a top-end she may will be younger you know she appears to have some health issues that she that you know she she may be itinerant but that's entirely speculative you know so so yeah so at the moment we're just looking for public assistance have a have a look at this t-shirt and and certainly it's this this person now has you know it's going on for quite some period of time since she would have been home or people would have interacted with her so if you have concerns for a family member who has not been home that you would have normally expected to be home contact us she's still unconscious so she still is unconscious that's right the prognosis for this woman is very poor is she likely to be flown to Townsville or is it no she's staying here well prognosis for this woman is very poor so hence we're trying to contact family to get the contact with the hospital as soon as possible and then for that aspect of it just the general welfare of the family and and to allow them to contact the victim of this offense no no well there's there's there's no other associated injuries that we're aware of presently it is it appears to be a relatively small number of blows that is possibly if that is the cause of this event but certainly at the moment that's what it appears to be so more than one injury no it doesn't appear to be it appears to be it appears to be a limited injury which would imply it's it's it's a limited assault if if in fact an assault is the cause of this injury at the end of the day but at the moment that's that's an inference we're making would it appear that a weapon perhaps was used no look I don't believe so at the moment no what else could be the cause then I mean if it wasn't an assault well it'd be difficult I would have if if it was an accident I would have thought there'd be other associated injuries that would have provided some indication of that a fall would normally have other abrasions other injuries but this doesn't so so at this stage we're progressing the investigation the basis that the injury has been inflicted through an assault where that has occurred and what circumstances we have no idea how long was she waiting at the shelter before she was found is there any indication well no idea we what we do know is this was funny at 136 Cameronga Road is a road that is quite heavily frequented traffic even at that stage of the night so what we request is anyone who may have particularly probably been traveling along Cameronga Road between midnight and 1 30 they may well notice this person there and simply ignored them or just assumed we have no idea all we know is that the woman was there at 1 30 how long she was there for prior to that we have no idea so what we would what we would be requesting is anyone who had traveled along Cameronga Road past that point if they did or didn't notice anything we'd asked them to come forward you know there's no property no it's just the merely the dark pair of short she was wearing the t-shirt well it's difficult it's at the moment the investigation can't can't really progress in social dramas we identify once we once we identify well then obviously the investigation will unfold from that point but certainly it does not appear as though the assault necessarily has originated that location it may have that's right there could have been a precursor argument within within fresh water you know Stratford anyway it the extent of the injury is possibly unlikely the person the victim is going to travel too far on foot I'm going to think of you quite debilitating injury quite quickly so so yeah so look at anyone who is probably on Cameronga Road last night probably you know from midnight to 1 30 is a critical stage even earlier you know they may have noticed this person within the bus shoulder oh look I've no idea we have made those inquiries but certainly it'd be nine or ten o'clock it'd be the latest I would have thought oh look we've had other cases where we've had victims who have assaulted usually we would then if I remember quickly but today we haven't we've conducted we we have received we are canvas we have canvas the community and we have had a number of names where we've eliminated those names and established the persons who have been nominated as safe and well so so they're presently super we are frustrated so so we need to get this particularly the t-shirt as broadcasters broadly as we can and hopefully that looks like someone's memory just while we're here is there anything you can update us on Diccan Crouch no look the major instant room continues the investigation remains the same we we conducted further searches on the western side of merchants Beach yesterday they did not reveal anything of any consequence the investigation continues there's been a particular developments you know there are a few groups watching us around the area you've been able to speak to any of the groups no well the moment they aren't there the weather person being conducive to it they normally camp around fresh water but the weather they don't they haven't been done