Natasha Ryan - the girl in the cupboard - marries...

A runaway schoolgirl in northern Australia who made world headlines for hiding in a cupboard for nearly five years while her parents believed she had been murdered, has married her 'captor'.

Natasha Ryan, then 14, of central Queensland, secretly moved in with the man she was banned from seeing in 1998 - and never left. 

Even when she watched a police murder hunt for herself on television, she remained in hiding with boyfriend Scott Black, a milkman.

For four years she lived in semi-darkness, behind closed curtains and only twice ventured out in the middle of the night to breathe fresh air. 

The couple's love appeared to be doomed when the trial of a man who confessed to her murder was stopped when police told the judge: 'We have found Natasha alive and well.'

After a tip-off, police discovered her in a wardrobe at Mr Black's home in Rockhampton, a mile from her family home. 

Natasha, then 18, returned to live with her mother, Jenny, and Mr Black later went to prison for a year for perjury. More...

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