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Missing teenager Tea Wright-Finger posted TikTok video showing bruised and bloodied face last year

Tea Wright-Finger, 19, disappeared on October 16 after a friend dropped her near her Toyota Prado 4WD in Richmond, Far North Queensland.

Missing teenager Tea Wright-Finger posted video showing bruised face last year

A teenager who vanished 11 days ago posted a chilling video of her injured face and revealed details of her troubled past, it has emerged.

Tea Wright-Finger, 19, disappeared on October 16 after a friend dropped her near her Toyota Prado 4WD in Richmond, Far North Queensland.

She hasn’t been seen since despite a desperate hunt by her family, police, search planes and members of the public.

Now a TikTok video has surfaced showing Miss Wright-Finger with a bruised and cut-up face as she cries into the camera.

A chilling video posted by missing teen Tea Wright-Finger has emerged. Picture: TikTok
A chilling video posted by missing teen Tea Wright-Finger has emerged. Picture: TikTok

The clip, posted last year, shows a timelapse of her wounds healing.

“When it’s toxic, it’s toxic,” the caption reads.

It is not clear how she suffered the injuries or if they have any connection to her disappearance, but the video paints the picture of a teenager with a traumatic past.

The cattle station worker also posted a separate TikTok two weeks before she vanished, which said: “I don’t feel so good, I want to go home.”

A 700km-wide search for Miss Wright-Finger is yet to find anything, but police were earlier focusing on the Flinders River area as her phone was briefly switched on there at 9.30am last Tuesday.

She has not used her bank card since she was last seen.

Queensland Police said they were combing through “challenging terrain” and thick riverbank vegetation and hoped to find Miss Wright-Finger “safe and well”.

“The search today and over the weekend is concentrating on the analysis of some mobile phone data,” Inspector Damian Crosby said earlier this week, adding that cops were not sure what had happened to her.

“Obviously we are concerned for Tea’s welfare. We would like to locate her as soon as possible,” he added.

Tea Wright-Finger was last seen on October 16. Picture: Instagram
Tea Wright-Finger was last seen on October 16. Picture: Instagram

The missing teenager’s mother Tracy Wright thanked people who had helped in the search for her daughter.

“Richmond police just phoned - they got a ping off Téa’s phone on Tuesday and it was still in the Richmond area,” she wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

“It was not until Wednesday morning that it started going straight to message bank.

“Because of this they have two helicopters up again today searching and driving all the roads again. They have had quite a bit of rain so the gravel roads are very wet.

“They have pinged her phone so if she turns it on or uses it, we can get an idea where she is.”

Tea was driving a blue 2013 Toyota Prado 4WD
Tea was driving a blue 2013 Toyota Prado 4WD
Tea Wright-Finger also posted this TikTok before she vanished. Picture: TikTok
Tea Wright-Finger also posted this TikTok before she vanished. Picture: TikTok

The Mount Isa RACQ LifeFlight Rescue has scoured a 700km search area.

The SES and volunteers are also looking for her.

Miss Wright-Finger has links to the Northern Territory, Bundaberg in Queensland and the farms near Richmond, which is around 500km west of Townsville.

She is white, 180cm tall, of a medium build and has blonde or light brown hair.

She was driving a blue 2013 Toyota Prado 4WD, registration 210-TLA.

Anyone with information should contact Queensland Police.

Originally published as Missing teenager Tea Wright-Finger posted TikTok video showing bruised and bloodied face last year

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