Teenager found dead after posting on Facebook she had a stalker

A TEENAGE girl has been found dead three days after telling friends on Facebook she had a stalker.

The body of aspiring model Emily Longley, who grew up in Auckland in New Zealand, was discovered at an address in Bournemouth, Dorset, on Saturday morning.

Last Wednesday, the 17- year-old posted on Facebook: “I have a stalker!!!”

Later she posted: “Someone just called me and I was like ‘Who’s this?’

“And they were like ‘You don’t know me but I know everything about you’ and I was like ‘How did you get my number?’ and he was like ‘I’ll tell you when I see you’ and kept asking me out.

“So I hung up and they won’t stop calling.

“I’m really scared! Ha. It’s a private number as well. Some people need to get a life!”

On May 5 she posted she was “down and out”.

Two days later she was found dead at a bungalow in Queenswood Avenue.

An inquest into the death of the Brockenhurst College student was opened and adjourned by the Bournemouth, Poole and East Dorset Coroner yesterday.

Police said the cause of Longley’s death was “undetermined subject to toxicology tests”.

Two Bournemouth men aged 19 and 17 were arrested on Saturday but have been released on bail pending further enquiries, a police spokesman said.

Emily’s father, Mark Longley, said she apparently died in her sleep but the cause of her death remains a mystery.

“It is a huge shock to us, and Caroline [Emily’s mother] and I are going to England to try and find out what happened,” he told the New Zealand Herald.

“She was a beautiful girl and full of life, it is so tragic.”