Aussie reality TV star issues desperate plea after home is ransacked and graffitied with chilling message
The 24-year-old, who lives in Gatton with her professional boxer fiancé David Nyika, was left shaken after she arrived home at the weekend to find holes in her walls and the bedrooms trashed.
The living room had been graffitied with a brazen warning: 'Ethan was here,' and 'Hunter was here.'
Lexy turned to social media for help after the distressing incident.
'Gatton locals, swipe up if you know the teenagers who broke into our house a few days ago,' she wrote alongside several photos of the incident.
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'Very upsetting...' Lexy wrote as she photographed some of the damage.
Lexy said that her neighbours had seen six teenagers on bicycles hanging around her property on the day of the incident.
'Keep a close eye on your kids please,' she added, before asking locals to help her identify the perpetrators.
Gatton is a small town in the Lockyer Valley Region of Queensland, with a population of less than 8,000.
Making matters worse, Lexi and her NZ-born fiancé appear to have only recently purchased the property.
In a carousel of photos that Lexi posted to social media last week, the happy couple posed together in front of a Gatton Real Estate 'Sold' sign and proudly held up the keys to their first home.
'Your Home. Our community,' the slogan on the real estate sign reads.
Lexy and David are also recently engaged, after the Kiwi boxer got down on one knee during a holiday to Mexico.
David popped the question with a Tiffany ring at sunset in the Isla Mujeres.
'It's easy with Lexy. I spent almost eight years with the wrong people, I wanted to nail this one,' he told Woman's Day.
Although the Kiwi boxer moved from England to Australia to train with Lexy's father and boxing trainer Noel Thornberry in 2022, it was the former Love Islander that made the first move.
After watching David win bronze in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, she slid into his Instagram DMs.
And as fate would have it, David soon moved to Queensland to train with her dad on the family farm the following year.
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