BY OLIVIA DILLON
An inquest is set to take place this month into the disappearance of Hunter teenager Zac Barnes, almost eight years after he was last seen.
The 18-year-old apprentice bricklayer was last seen leaving a friend's car near the intersection of Haussman Drive and Tripp Close at Thornton on the night of November 13 2016.
On the way to Thornton train station, Zac allegedly asked his friend to stop the car, and ran off with no wallet or phone and has never been heard from since.
Since then, a number of multi-agency search operations have taken place to no avail.
The inquest will run from the 17th to the 19th of July and will be presided over by Deputy State Coroner Carmel Forbes.
