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Police hunting the killer of teenager Libby Templeman yesterday searched a house about 4km from where her body was found.
They were also looking for her missing cellphone.
The property in Kerikeri was under police guard last night. Detectives spent much of yesterday scouring the property, slashing down all of the bushes and flowers growing along one side of the section.
Police would not say what they were doing at the house.
But they said Libby's black Nokia cellphone, which was about five or six years old and had a cracked screen, was missing.
Police went door-to-door on the road that passes the house being searched, asking residents if they had seen any youths on bicycles on Saturday night.
The road borders the area near where Libby's body was found and is one of several police have been focused on since her death.
A neighbour said the family living at the cordoned property were "very nice people".
Another neighbour said he had seen boys outside the home on bicycles. He did not believe they had caused any trouble.
The funeral director organising Libby's public farewell tomorrow says it will reflect her bright and bubbly personality.
Anthony Kiely told the Herald that her favourite colour, burnt orange, would appear throughout the service, and her parents, Andrew and Rebecca Templeman, had asked people coming to the funeral not to wear black.
"They want everyone to come in bright colours and be uplifting," Mr Kiely said.
An old black Cadillac hearse would be decorated with orange bows and ribbons.
Libby's Kerikeri High School friends had asked to perform a song which they had written, and music from the talented drama student's favourite movie, High School Musical, would be played.
The public farewell at The Centre in Kerikeri at 11am tomorrow will follow a private funeral for family and close friends. Libby will be cremated.
In a statement issued through police, Andrew and Rebecca Templeman said their daughter had been staying with family friends in Kerikeri and had been planning to return to the North Shore on Sunday before starting school at Rangitoto College.
"We would like to thank the community of Kerikeri, Libby's friends and police staff for all their efforts," they said.
The Templemans moved with their daughter and her younger brother from England about three years ago. They went to Kerikeri, but recently shifted to Auckland.
Libby's aunt in Colchester, who did not want to be named, said the family had got "fed up" with Britain and decided to emigrate.
She said: "They thought it would be a better life for them there. They went there in 2005 for a couple of weeks and decided they loved it and would move out there.
"She [Libby] wanted to be an actress or a singer or anything theatrical. She was in pantomimes when they lived in Brightlingsea. She was fun and outgoing, a bubbly girl.
"I haven't seen her for three years but my mum has been out there twice and each time she said Libby had grown into an independent, outgoing young woman."
