One by one each family member escaped the 1,500km road trip until the last to surface, Mark, walked into a police station in Wangaratta, in northern Victoria, on Saturday, five days after he was reported missing.



He has not spoken to the media – which he flipped the bird to at the police station – but Ella told reporters her father was being looked after by relatives in Wangaratta.

Mitchell, who threw his phone out the window half an hour into the trip, said the family were "fearing for their lives" but no aggressor has been identified yet, fuelling speculation the Tromps suffered from a shared delusion that they were under an unfounded threat.