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Not sure what you're getting at? I wouldn't have been making a single drive to one point and then back again, precisely because I don't think it accomplishes anything or makes any sense. There is more local ground to search and if the theory is that he's gotten a lot further than originally...

I mean that you'd think of a distance (eg 5km or whatever distance you think a child could walk in the timeframe at an absolute stretch) and drive out to that point and all the points that distance from the house looking for him. You'd go up multiple roads, not just one way, loop back around to...

I think the only realistic explanation is that it was well over five minutes (in that I mean something like 20 minutes, not something like 7 minutes). None of the theories make much sense if it was only five minutes. But I still don't know why you would go for a short, specific drive rather...

That's a good theory that the police could have evidence to support, and it certainly fits with why they have both been charged but FM is the POI. Well spotted. It would certainly change the entire complexion of what was going on as well.

Oh, totally agree. I find it bizarre. An adult on foot should be able to outpace a three year old quite easily over a period of time and he hadn't been gone for that long. I'm not even sure he could have made it that distance in that time, and he would not have been knowing where he was heading...

Could be. It has been stated in the media that mobile phone records show he left the house at 9:30am. We haven't yet been able to ascertain the specifics of this or what it means. It is bizarre in light of the fact that all accounts place him as leaving the house well before 9:30am and returning...

Fair point and possibility. I always got the impression from her commentary that she got the text at the time it arrived on her phone and that she was at her mother's when this happened. This was, however, just my impression. And I'll add that all of this commentary excluded the fact that she...

I think she has to be back from her drive by 10:30am because she got the text from FF then and the characterisation of that is that she was at her mother's place when she received the text message. So yes, I'd say 10:25am is the latest she could have been coming back from her drive (assuming it...

Which still in my view means if she had left after FF got home she would have taken their car, not her mother's. (Not that I am responding to you on this, just following on from my other post on the matter in that my analysis is that she went for the drive before FF returned home.)

I think FF says he "pulled in to the carport". Let me see if I can find that.

So by the accounts of FM & FF, nobody searched the house until the first police officer arrived when he had a look. FF assumed it had already been checked so he didn't upon arrival, and FM makes no reference to the house being searched inside. My recollection of the inquest and walk-through...

Yes. Those arguments were not presented, but it did not mean they did not exist, was what I was getting at. I have never regarded it as Ms Smith's responsibility to do that because her foundation for her argument as to why the status of William's circumstances should be revealed was completely...

One of my problems with the FM's story is that I have to do so much mental gymnastics to make it fit. In every situation I can think of involving someone in a criminal case, where they have been innocent of wrongdoing, I can reasonably easily understand why they would have behaved the way they...

The safety and privacy of all siblings in these situations is an issue, and that does not result in the suppression of the identity of actual parents. In this particular situation, if they are claiming that the safety and privacy was particularly an issue because they were foster carers, there...

They were definitely not in favour of an inquest from the quote in that article because they were upset that Ms Smith was calling for one. They also didn't call for an inquest themselves, which most people in these situations do when an investigation has stalled (which it had).

Oh, and that article reminded me of something. The entire Where's William PR campaign was about helping William's PARENTS find William. It was done on behalf of his foster parents, so yes, they were actively running and pursuing the narrative that they were his parents. That is what THEY wanted...

It's fascinating to me that the FM felt uniquely entitled to privacy and protection from scrutiny above that to which actual parents have felt entitled. Had she been an actual parent, her details would have been known, as they are with parents in these circumstances. We all know who Madeline...

Completely different circumstances. There were independent witnesses to the fact that Daniel was waiting at the bus stop. They were also Daniel's actual parents, not his foster carers, so them referring to themselves as Daniel's parents was completely legitimate and could not be construed to...

The law does not see them as her family, and the fact that they are not technically her family is an important distinction. Fostering is not the same as adopting. First of all, it means that they were subject to ongoing monitoring and reporting, and while this may have decreased as the...

The preliminaries would always be handled in a lower court, and the matter may be moved to another one subsequently. Stalking and intimidation are more serious than breaching an AVO and they carry with them the possibility of more serious consequences, whether or not those consequences...