By ARJUN RAMACHANDRAN
Shewas last seen wearing black dress pants, a white buttoned-top printedwith The Australian College of Hair Design and Beauty, and a bluejacket with red lining. She was wearing canvas slip-on style blue-greentartan shoes.
A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 20-year-oldtrainee beautician who has been missing since last Friday night.
Shana Wilkinson, 20, from Corowa in NSW, was last seen at her home about 9pm, police said.
When a family member returned to the house three hours later, she was gone from the house.
Aftera week of searches, which included the involvement of police diverssearching the Murray River, police last night found the body of a20-year-old woman - believed to be that of Ms Wilkinson - buried in a reserveabout three kilometres south of Corowa.
Earlier, a 20-year-oldlocal man was arrested by police and was questioned over the youngwoman's disappearance. He was charged with murder last night.
He was refused bail and faces Albury Local Court this morning.
MsWilkinson's mother had raised the alarm about her missing daughter whenshe failed to show up to work at Target Country in Corowaat 10am on Saturday.
Her younger brother Joel spent his 16th birthday on Monday waiting fruitlessly for word of his sister's whereabouts.
OnWednesday, posters of the missing young woman were plastered on wallsand windows throughout Corowa, while SES, Volunteer Rescue Associationmembers and her father's firefighting colleagues door-knocked residentsin the town and nearby Wahgunyah.
The support forthe family was echoed online, where a Facebook group calling forinformation on the former Corowa High School studentâs whereÂabouts hadattracted more than 400 members by last night, before news of her deathhad spread.
Ms Wilkinson left her handbag andwallet at home on the night of her disappearance and the battery in hermobile phone went flat at 12.30am on Monday.
Its last signal had been pinpointed to a paddock off Boorhaman East Road at Norong, near Rutherglen.
- with Victoria Macdonald and The Border Mail
© 2007 The Sydney Morning Herald
