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At the William #Tyrrell inquest, Tony Jones lashed out at media as he left yesterday

Today - perhaps conscious of yesterday's pics - he rocked up in a Harvard hoodie, with headphones and this pose

Both brilliant pics by Nathan Edwards for @AAPNewswire AAP

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Luke Costin on Twitter
 
A convicted pedophile has lashed out at an inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell, snapping when asked if he knew anything about the toddler's disappearance. @KellyFedor #9News

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Nine News Sydney on Twitter
 
Tony #Jones is giving evidence at the inquest into the disappearance of William #Tyrrell. He made it here despite missing his flight & a flat tyre. @9NewsSyd

Kelly Fedor on Twitter

Of the day William #Tyrrell disappeared, Tony #Jones says "I have no recollection, none whatsoever."

Kelly Fedor on Twitter
 
8 - 9 March 2020

The Coronial Inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell will resume this morning in Taree, about 50km from where the toddler disappeared on the NSW Mid North Coast. @10NewsFirst #WheresWilliam

Lia Harris on Twitter

Coroner Harriet Grahame has again opened the inquest by thanking William’s “family and friends” for being here and told the court she acknowledges “keeping the faith is challenging”. She said her legal team had “worked tirelessly” and “committed to finding answers”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Convicted paedophile Frank Abbott, who was living near Benaroon Drive when William disappeared, is up on the court screen via video link from jail and is expected to testify at some stage.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Counsel Assisting the Coroner Gerard Craddock SC has opened by saying “someone knows something” about William’s disappearance and assured them they “need not be afraid” to come forward.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Craddock appeals to the woman Ron Chapman claims to have seen driving a car with a little boy in a Spider-Man suit in the backseat to come forward, saying “that person would have nothing to fear coming forward”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Craddock told the court “it’s an appalling thing we still have no certainty as to what became of a three year old simply playing in the garden”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mid North Coast local Kellie Lee is now on the stand. Her parents lived on the same street as Ron Chapman at the time William disappeared and she had a “blonde haired” son about the same age as William at the time.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Lee told the court her son had a Spider-Man suit around that time. She has since tried to find photos of him wearing it to determine exactly when he had the suit.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court her son was not wearing the Spider-Man suit when they left home on September 12, 2014, to visit her parents “as far as I can recall”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court she arrived at her parents house “a little earlier” than 10.45am that day and her son was wearing the Spider-Man suit at their house at some stage.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Craddock asks her if there was any chance her son may have been unrestrained in the backseat when she drove to her parents house that day. She told the court it was “extremely unlikely” and the children knew not to take off their seatbelts in the car.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court her son was wearing the Spider-Man suit while at his grandparents house that day.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Lee told the court she asked her son to take off his Spider-Man suit after she learned a little boy in a Spider-Man suit had gone missing nearby.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ronald Chapman has now taken the stand for a second time. He previously claimed to have seen a little boy in a Spider-Man suit in the backseat of a car driving past his house the morning William Tyrrell disappeared.

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Mr Chapman told the court he knew Ms Lee’s parents and was aware they had small grandchildren at the time.

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He reiterates to the court that he believes he saw William Tyrrell in the backseat of a car that drove past that morning. The woman he saw driving had blonde hair in a bun on top of her head.

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Craddock asked him if there was “any chance” the woman driving was Kellie Lee. Mr Chapman responded that Ms Lee “always had dark hair” and was not the same height.

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The court heard Ms Lee was driving a dark blue Subaru Outback at the time. Mr Chapman claims he saw the child in a “fawn or light brown” car followed by a blue sedan.

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Craddock asked Mr Chapman if he could have mistaken Ms Lee’s son for William Tyrrell. Mr Chapman told the court “I’m sure it was William Tyrrell”.

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Craddock asked Mr Chapman if it was possible the car he saw the boy in was Ms Lee’s car and he responded “no”.

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Craddock asked Mr Chapman “given it was a blink and you miss it kind of moment, what makes you so sure it was a Spider-Man suit?”. Mr Chapman responded “that’s just what it appeared to me” and told the court “I’m sure it was William”.

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9 March 2020

Debbie Jones has now taken the stand. She was previously married to person of interest Tony Jones, who is a convicted child sex offender.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Jones is being questioned about the friendship between Tony Jones and Paul Bickford, who has also been convicted of a child sex offence.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Jones told the court Tony Jones left home early on the day William went missing, “between 7.30 and 8am”, saying he was “going out scrapping” with their son.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Jones told the court she then saw her son later that day who said he had not seen Tony at all and wasn’t aware of plans to go scrapping.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court Tony then arrived home that afternoon “drunk”. She said she confronted him about “why he lied” about going scrapping with their son and he “stormed out the back”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court Tony later said he would go out and help look for “the missing child” after they heard William had disappeared. He then decided not to because “he figured there was enough people looking”.

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9 March 2020

Local man Max Jones has now taken the stand. He told the court he used to regularly walk his dogs at a reserve near Laurieton, about 15 minutes drive from Kendall. The court is now being shown a video walkthrough he did with detectives at the reserve in 2018.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Jones told the detective in the video he pulled up at the reserve and saw a man sitting in another car parked there. He said “he was looking at me and I was looking at him” before he wound up his window “very quickly”. He said he noticed the vehicle was “very fogged up”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Jones told the detective he later saw Tony Jones and his car “on the news” and believed “it was definitely him” he had seen at the reserve that day. He said it was months afterwards but he was “100% sure” it was him.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Jones is asked if he was sure the day he saw the man at the reserve was September 12, 2014 and he told the court he was sure it was that day and believed it was about “10 to 12” that morning.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Jones claims this encounter with the man in the car happened at the Henry Kendall Reserve on the day William went missing, about 12km from Benaroon Drive.

Lia Harris on Twitter

He told the court he went to the Kendall RSL later that day and was told about the missing boy.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Jones has been excused and the court has been closed for an application to be made, but there will be no further evidence today. It will resume tomorrow morning.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
9 March 2020

The William Tyrrell inquest has resumed, with Counsel Assiting the Coroner Gerard Craddock telling the court a witness has missed a flight and another is no longer required. Duane Gardoll is now on the stand, he is the son of convicted child sex offender Tony Jones.@10NewsFirst

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Gardoll is asked about Jones’ car, a white Ford Courier, which he painted blue sometime before September 2014. He couldn’t recall exactly when he painted the car but told the court “he got done for DUI in it so he painted it blue”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

The court is now being shown images of a burned out car, which Mr Gardoll told the court belonged to Tony Jones.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Gardoll told the court he didn’t “go scrapping” with Jones the morning William disappeared, despite Jones’ wife testifying that’s where Jones said he’d gone. Mr Gardoll said he was at home when he saw on the news a little boy had gone missing from Kendall.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Gardoll told the court he saw Jones later that day, around 4-4.30pm, and he was laying in bed “pretty well intoxicated”. He said Jones told him he’d been scrapping in the forest that morning.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Gardoll told the court Jones then told him to “get the motorbikes ready” to go to Kendall and help search for William Tyrrell the next day. He said he never showed up the next morning. Instead, he told him he’d spent the petrol money on “longnecks” to drink with Paul Bickford.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Gardoll told the court his mother kicked Jones out of the house a “couple of weeks later” and he no longer has any contact with him.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Gardoll has been excused and the court has adjourned while the witness who missed his flight is driven to Taree. It will likely not be able to resume until later this afternoon.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
Person of interest and convicted sex offender Tony Jones missed his flight to get here this morning, so he’s being driven here by a police officer. The court has been adjourned since this morning while we wait for him.

Lia Harris on Twitter

The inquest has resumed with Anthony (Tony) Jones in the witness box. The court heard they got a flat tyre on the way here after he missed his flight.

Lia Harris on Twitter

The court heard Mr Jones had a permit to collect scrap metal from the forest to sell. He told the court he went with Mr Gardoll “99.9% of the time”, but “once in a while” he would “sneak away and do it by myself and keep the money for myself”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Jones is being asked about his movements the morning William vanished and why he told his then wife Debbie he was scrapping with Mr Gardoll. He told the court “if I wasn’t scrapping and I was away from the house, I was probably sleeping with Debbie’s friend next door”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Jones told the court his former wife and children never saw him drunk because “I could drink all day and it made no difference”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

He told the court he has “no recollection” of what he did the morning William disappeared.

Lia Harris on Twitter

When asked to confirm he has no memory of what he did that day, he responded “do you remember what you did in 1952?” He then reiterated that he doesn’t remember.

Lia Harris on Twitter

The court heard one of Jones’ neighbours was Frank Abbott’s son-in-law, but Jones told the court they didn’t know each other back then, later crossing paths in jail. Abbott is also a person of interest in the case.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Jones is asked about the reported sighting of him at Henry Kendall Reserve the morning William disappeared and he told the court “that person who recognised me needs to go to an optometrist”. He claimed he never drove a car of that description.

Lia Harris on Twitter

The court heard Jones was then arrested for an unrelated charge on September 20, 2014, and released again in December 2017.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Despite earlier planning to sit later tonight to make up for the hours of court time lost earlier today, the court has adjourned a few minutes early and will resume again with Jones on the stand tomorrow morning.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Jones became aggressive with media and scuffled with a photographer as he left court, damaging his camera. He didn’t answer any questions.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
The William Tyrrell inquest has resumed in Taree. Jan Anderson is in the witness box. She and her husband owned a take away shop in Wauchope in September 2014, about 23km from Kendall. @10NewsFirst

Lia Harris on Twitter

The court heard before they owned the take away, they owned a general store in Johns River, where they met Frank Abbott, who’s now a suspect in the case. Ms Anderson told the court Abbott told them he’d been acquitted of a murder. “He used to discuss it with anybody or anyone”

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Anderson told the court Abbott used to do “odd jobs” for them before some money went missing from their shop. She told the court “we couldn’t prove that... but we just knew that’s who did it.”

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court they were “wary” of Abbott and never left children alone with him, saying “he used to always try to be friendly to the children and we just had a feeling that we didn’t trust him around children”.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
She is asked if she recalls whether or not Abbott came into their shop in Wauchope the day William went missing and she told the court “I don’t remember if he was there at that time”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Anderson told the court in the weeks after William vanished Abbott used to talk about the case “quite a bit” and repeatedly told them about a “funny smell” on a hillside he noticed on his regular walk home to Logan’s Crossing.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court they suggested it could be a dead animal and he said “no it’s not, I know what a dead animal smells like”. They suggested he go and “have a look” and he responded “oh no, if there’s something up there I’ll get the blame for it”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court he also didn’t want to tell police about the smell and they said “If you’re not going to go to the police then shut up about it”. They later took their daughter to show her where Abbott said the smell was.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Abbott questioned her himself via video link. He told the court he recalls being at their shop in Wauchope when they heard on the radio that a little boy had gone missing. Ms Anderson told the court she doesn’t recall him being there that day.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
Ms Anderson’s son Dean Anderson is now in the witness box. He told the court he thought Abbott was a “dirty old man” who used to “constantly go on about how he beat a murder charge in Sydney” and seemed to think it was a “badge of honour”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Mr Anderson told the court Abbott spoke about William’s disappearance after September 12 “several times”. He said on one occasion he commented when police were searching Bill Spedding’s property that “they were searching in the wrong spot”. He said he found it “strange”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

He told the court on another occasion he spoke about “the smell” and when Mr Anderson suggested it could be a dead kangaroo, he claimed Abbott responded “I know the difference between a dead kangaroo and a dead human smell”.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
Ms Anderson’s daughter Sherie Hamilton is now on the stand. She told the court Abbott used to talk about the William Tyrrell case “a lot” and “I would say he was interested”.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
Local woman Elizabeth Rowley is now on the stand. She owned an antiques shop around late 2013 and 2014 both in Kendall and then in nearby Kew. She told the court Abbott came in on “six to eight” occasions to sell her antiques but she never bought any.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court on one occasion he came to her shop in a white station wagon to show her some items.

Lia Harris on Twitter

Ms Rowley told the court another local man, Iris Northam’s husband, came into her shop and said Abbott was upset because he’d driven a “woman and a little boy” to Tamworth and hadn’t been paid. Mr Northam told her he was concerned it was “related to William Tyrrell”.

Lia Harris on Twitter

She told the court Mr Northam wanted her to tell her husband about his concerns because he’s a police officer, which she did. The court has now adjourned for the day.

Lia Harris on Twitter
 
The inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell heard more damning evidence today, with locals claiming convicted paedophile Frank Abbott bragged about beating a murder charge years before the toddler went missing.

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10 News First Sydney on Twitter
 
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