Aboriginal ‘spirit man’ called in to try to find teenager Tristan Frank missing in the outback

Relatives of a teenage boy missing in outback Western Australia believe he has been taken by spirits, who have secreted him away in the hot deserts of the Kimberley.

Fourteen-year-old Tristan Frank was last seen in the Balgo community, in the Tanami Desert, in early December.

The teenager lives in a community across the Northern Territory border but stopped off to stay with relatives in Balgo while his grandparents travelled west to attend a funeral.

Senior Sergeant Charlie Moylan, who heads the Balgo police station, says there have not been any sightings of him in the six weeks since.