Police initially thought he and the birth mother had William with them
at their house in Granville in western Sydney, but it was a younger child.
The birth father said he was smoking a cigarette in the back yard and police hammered on the door and told his then partner that William was missing.
“I said ‘he’s f***ing what?’,” the father told the court.
“They f***ed up. The minister has a duty of care to keep him safe until 18.”
The court heard that the birth father had told his mother early on the same morning he had a feeling that “something doesn’t feel right” and he wasn’t going to work.
He told court that at the time, when he had gone to
McDonald’s for several hours that morning he was “incoherent”.
But he said, “I do remember having that feeling, sensing something was wrong in that period ... making me sound crazy.”
William’s birth dad: ‘They f**ked up’