When Gary Tweddle was found and they were talking about an inquest, to see if his death was an accident or foul play, I emailed the Coroners Court in NSW to inquire when we could expect an inquest.
They replied and said that when the Coroner decides an inquest will happen, it would take a year or more before it would happen. It would have to be put on the schedule, all the case material would have to be gathered, the witnesses would have to be subpeoned, etc etc. And this was for someone who had been missing for 6 weeks and then was found.
Then the inquest actually happened about 1½ years later.
I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of material, witnesses, witness statements, POIs, etc, that would need to be collated and put together for an inquest into William's disappearance.
good point..