Hayley Dodd’s mother Margaret tells Frances Wark murder trial of final call from daughter

The mother of missing teenager Hayley Dodd says she rang triple-0 when she heard her daughter had not arrived at a farm in WA’s Wheatbelt, but was told it was not an emergency and she should go to her local police station to report it.

Margaret Dodd was the first witness at the Supreme Court trial of Francis Wark, 64, who is alleged to have abducted and murdered the 17-year-old in July 1999.

The teenager’s body has never been found.

Mr Wark owned a property in Badgingarra, north of Perth, near where Hayley was last seen alive, walking along a remote road.

She was a week into a trip around Australia with a friend, and was on her way to visit a family she had previously stayed with.

Hayley Dodd’s final call to mother

Today Margaret Dodd told…