Human remains found in search for missing Brisbane childcare worker Samuel Thompson

THREE days after a self-proclaimed anti-Islamic State fighter was charged with the murder of Samuel Thompson, police have found human remains.

Samuel Thompson vanished on March 7. Remains believed to be his have been found north of Brisbane.

POLICE have found human remains believed to be those of missing Brisbane childcare worker Samuel Thompson, who was allegedly murdered by a one-time anti-Islamic State fighter last month.

Mr Thompson, 22, vanished after leaving his apartment building in Brisbane’s inner north on March 7.

His distinctive orange Ford Mustang, bearing the personalised Queensland registration SAMMO, was found abandoned in northern New South Wales two days later.

Late last week, two men, self-proclaimed former anti-Islamic State fighter Ashley Dyball, 25, and Roberto Vincenzo Boscaino, 23, were charged with Mr Thompson’s murder and interfering with his corpse.

Samuel Thompson’s distinctive car was found abandoned in northern NSW two days after he disappeared. Picture: Liam Kidston

In a statement, Queensland Police described what they found in a shallow grave near Caboolture, north of Brisbane, as “human remains”.

They are yet to be formally identified as belonging to Mr Thompson.

Both men charged with his murder were remanded in custody in separate court appearances in Brisbane Magistrates Court late last week.

Dyball was subject to an Australian Federal Police investigation after he allegedly breached Australia’s foreign fighter laws.

He joined the Kurdish YPG militia to fight against ISIS in northern Syria before returning to Australia in late 2015.

Samuel Thompson’s parents Bruce and Debbie and sister Courtney appeal for information last month.

The northern Brisbane man fought alongside Gold Coaster Reece Harding, 23, who died in 2015 when he stepped on a landmine in Syria.

Mr Thompson’s parents reported him missing last month and, a couple of weeks later, fronted media to appeal for information about his whereabouts, describing their son as “generous, thoughtful and loyal”.

The murder charges against Dyball and Boscaino were laid a day after police seized a car from a Bald Hills home and declared a crime scene.

Authorities also searched a nearby tip.