Mother of dead teen arrives in UK to bring daughter home

The mother of the New Zealand teenager whose body was found at a property in Southern England has arrived in Britain to bring her daughter's body home.

Mystery surrounds the death of 17-year-old Emily Longley, who is thought to have died in her sleep over the weekend.

British police will not confirm the cause of death until toxicology reports are back. An inquest has begun.

Longley's "unexplained" death comes two days after the she told friends she had received frightening calls from a stalker.

A 17-year-old and 19-year-old have been arrested, but released on bail as police continue their investigation.

Longley's Facebook page has been flooded with tributes since the news of her passing reached New Zealand.

Longley moved to England two years ago to live with her grandparents. Her closest friends say she was "really loving life over there".

She grew up on the North Shore, attending Westlake Girls High School and Takapuna Grammar School.

Close friend Melissa Lee told TV ONE's Close Up last night that Langley, whose nickname was Barbie, was "famous on the Shore", her friend said.

"Everyone knew who Emily Longley was," Lee said.

Lee said Longley was the person she had shared the "best times of my life with" and that she was "always up for anything".

"Some of it naughty, but that's what makes memories and that's what's so hard...to think of growing old with someone but she won't be here any more," she said.

It was only when Lee found out about Longley's death that she realised "how much I loved her".

It is believed that Longley had been living in Bournemouth for around eight months and had been attending a college about 40 minutes away.

She returned to England only last week having made a short visit to New Zealand.

Longley made a posting on Facebook a few days before her death that she had a stalker and was "really scared".

"Someone just called me and I was like who's this?," she wrote on Thursday, May 5.

"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 ill tell you when I see you and kept asking me out. So I hung up and they won't stop calling."


Source: tvnz.co.nz