Well done for picking up on that!
IF the media has reported things correctly, that's an inconsistency in his story. From what I remember, the cafe manager didn't recall seeing him on that day, but I wonder how late into the investigation they questioned the cafe? I'm assuming it would have been around the time they questioned locals in Dunbogan? Judging by the date on that article the detectives went to Dunbogan on Wednesday 14 January. So long after William disappeared
Also from that article (this is very interesting - I'm sure I've read the article but due to the information overload at the time a few facts passed me by!)
"Police seized his telephone records and those of William’s grandmother as they have checked his statement that he had a missed call from the grandmother that morning and tried to call back but could not get through.
A friend of Mr Spedding’s said yesterday that police had questioned Mr Spedding about “why the phone calls were no longer in the call log on his mobile phone.”
So does that mean that the calls showed up on the telephone records, but WS had deleted the calls from his call log? A strange thing to do if he was trying to cover his tracks. Surely he would know that the police have other means to check things? Maybe he had planned to give police a different story and deleted the calls from his log (or perhaps he DID give them a different story - e.g. that he never spoke to the family that day.) Maybe he thought that deleting the calls would be enough to avoid suspicion or further investigation.
"Mr Spedding has told police he then walked with his wife across the road to Laurieton Public School to attend a school assembly in which one of his grandchildren got an award.
It is understood Mr Spedding has asked a woman who was taking photographs at the assembly for a copy of the pictures."
I wonder what came of that?
I'd love to know what came of the photos from school too.