Australia Australia - William Tyrrell, 3, Kendall, Nsw, 12 Sept 2014 - #43

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Aug 14

He’s being asked about his former friend, Michael McInally. He tells the court Mr McInally confided in him that he used to live on Batar Creek Rd and that morning he saw a white car going down “crazily”.
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Aug 14

He tells the court he saw a man in a white Holden commodore driving along and pushing something down in the car. He motions his hands to replicate the action he’s describing. He said he was driving “crazily”.
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Aug 14

He tells the court the Mr McInally confided in him during a conversation last year. He said it was “too much not to say anything about... I’ve got to tell this story”
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Aug 14

He tells the court the pair were “good mates” and he didn’t initially want to come forward, but his sister convinced him to go to police. He then met detectives at the Kendall Showground to tell them.
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Aug 14

He tells the court he is no longer friends with Mr McInally because he went to police. He said he clearly remembers what he told him during that conversation.
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Aug 14

The court is now being shown an image of where Mr McInally was living at the time on Batar Creek Rd, the road that intersects with Benaroon Drive.
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Aug 14

He tells the court they were having “a couple of beers” when he confided in him about what he allegedly saw. “When he said that he said at the same time that if I were to tell anybody he would deny it... he was worried about the amount of time that had gone past”.
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Aug 14

He told the court Mr McInally told him he knew of the person he saw driving that car. He said it “wasn’t Bill Spedding”.
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Aug 14

Spedding‘s lawyer is now questioning the witness, asking if they knew of Spedding because he was featured in the media as a person of interest. He tells the court he only knew of him from the media, but he did know William’s foster grandfather.
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Aug 14

He tells the court he doesn’t think Mr McInally “personally knows Mr Spedding” but he “might know dodgy people”. He clarified he’s not implying Spedding is dodgy.
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Aug 14

He tells the court Mr McInally was implying “it was like someone was trying to set up Spedding”.
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Aug 14

Spedding’s lawyer is asking if Mr Palmer believes Mr McInally is trying to “cover something up” if he denies the conversation happened. Mr Palmer tells the court Mr McInally was “on ice” when he saw the car and that’s why he didn’t want to tell anyone.
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Aug 14

He tells the court the person he saw driving the car “could have been a person who Mick has bad with” but he can’t be sure. He has now been excused. Mr McInally himself has now taken the stand.
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He tells the court he saw a man in a white Holden commodore driving along and pushing something down in the car. He motions his hands to replicate the action he’s describing. He said he was driving “crazily”.
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Aug 14

The court heard police approached Michael McInally after his former friend Mr Palmer told them about the conversation they allegedly had where he recalled the driver of the car “leaning over into the front passenger seat footwell and pushing something down”.
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Aug 14

Mr McInally told the court he told police he went to the doctor’s on the morning of September 12, 2014. He said “it was a long time” ago, but recalls seeing a car “he’d never seen in the area before”.
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Aug 14

He said it was a white Commodore and the person driving “looked like he was leaning over getting reception on his phone”.
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Aug 14

He is now demonstrating what the movement was, holding his left arm out. He said it was “just a second” glance at him and he didn’t see a phone but “that’s what it looked like”.
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Aug 14

The court heard he told his former friend Tim Palmer about it in 2018. He is asked why he remembered it four years later. He said “I’d never seen the car in Kendall before” and “had a bit too much to drink”. He said he didn’t recognise the person driving.
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Aug 14

He told the court he saw the car when he was driving past the Post Office. He is now being shown a map of Kendall and asked to point out where the Post Office is.
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