Mary Kate Heys claimed she was kidnapped and driven more than 80km from her hostel in Queensland, Australia. Photo / via Instagram
Mary Kate Heys claimed she was kidnapped and driven more than 80km from her hostel in Queensland, Australia. Photo / via Instagram
A British backpacker has been rescued from an apparent kidnapping after she sent texts to her father showing her location on Google Maps.
Mary Kate Heys, 20, from Manchester, said she was kidnapped from a hostel in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, yesterday.
Heys claims she was taken bya man who was possibly mentally unstable, and driven more than 80km up the coast.
She told Queensland paper the Courier Mail, she had met a 22-year-old Swedish man in her accommodation and he woke her early on Monday morning "in a manic state" to ask her to go to Brisbane with him.
Fearing for his safety, she agreed and he then told her they would go as far as Cairns, to get "away from the aliens".
Convincing him she needed to stop for a drink, the pair pulled over at a petrol station and Heys told the woman at the counter the man she was with wouldn't let her leave.
She asked her to call the police but an hour later as they continued up the coast, resorted to sending texts to her father on the other side of the world.
The messages told him not to worry, but the 20-year-old said she knew it would be any parent's worst nightmare.
