How police nabbed Audrey Griffin’s alleged killer Adrian Noel Torrens, a month after saying her death wasn’t suspicious

The 19-year-old travelled to Japan on a ski trip with mates, competed in the Ironman 70.3 in Taupō in New Zealand, obtained her motorcycle licence, and enlisted in the Navy.

Last month, she was on farewell tour of sorts on the Central Coast, spending time with loved ones and childhood friends before the next exciting chapter of her life began.

On March 22, Audrey took her grandma out for lunch and paid a visit to her grandfather in hospital, before heading out with a group of girlfriends that night.

In the early hours of March 23, after celebrating at Hotel Gosford, festivities drew to a close and she left the pub at about 2am to make her way back to her father’s house.

It was the last time she was seen alive.

Audrey hadn’t been able to get an Uber, so she set off on foot along The Entrance Road, hoping to hail a cab along the way.

“She’d taken the long way home along the water, obviously to try and hail down a cab, or she would have taken a shortcut through the heart of Gosford,” her devastated mother Kathleen Kirby told The Sydney Morning Herald.

Twelve hours later, her body was found in a creek, and the clock began ticking on a bizarre month-long police probe of her death.

Quickly ruled an accidental drowning, police maintained that there were ...
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