Campers urged to help in Cleo Smith search

Police investigating the dis­appearance of four-year-old Cleo Smith from a remote campground say they know not everyone who stayed there on the night she vanished has come forward.

Missing four-year-old Cleo Smith.

Police investigating the dis­appearance of four-year-old Cleo Smith from a remote campground say they know not everyone who stayed there on the night she vanished has come forward.

Police door-knocked homes and businesses on and near North West Coastal Highway on Monday in search of CCTV that might have captured a car seen leaving the main road to and from the campground, about 860km north of Perth, between 3am and 3.30am on October 16.

Police have witnesses who saw the car leaving the campground road and turning south on to the highway towards the town of ­Carnarvon.

This happened after Cleo was last seen alive when her mother gave her a drink of water at 1.30am and before she was discovered missing from the family tent at 6am.

Police have confirmed some campers say they heard “skidding” or “screeching” wheels at the campsite about 3am.

Despite a nationwide media blitz and $1m offered for information, West Australian Police deputy commissioner Col Blanch said not everyone who camped at the Blowholes on Oct­ober 15 had been accounted for.

The campsite is large and bookings are not required.

People are encouraged to turn up then pay online.

A council ranger visits daily to check this has been done.

“We need to speak to every ­single person who was there, and we haven’t yet done so,” Commissioner Blanch told reporters on Monday.

Police learned about the car leaving the campground from a motorist who was passing the Blowholes turn-off between 3am and 3.30am heading north.

That motorist could not be sure of the type of car they saw but police believe it was a passenger vehicle and not a truck.