JMO -
After considering the information in the links below, I am wondering if it would be possible for the tea to be warm when Senior Constable Christopher Rowley arrived at 11.06am, 10 minutes after William’s foster mother frantically called police to report him missing.
.... especially if the tea had been made around 10.30 am!
(Maybe someone else can find a link, but I seem to recall that Rowley had stated that when he felt the teacup, it was still warm).
Parents of William Tyrrell appear on 60 Minutes as new evidence revealed
"William was playing with his sister when he stepped off a wooden deck and onto grass near the side of the home as his mother made a cup of tea inside. Police believe William went down towards the sloping backyard.
On Sunday, William's parents revealed he could have made his way down the sloping backyard because he was excited about his dad coming home from work and wanted to welcome him home.
"I called out, 'Can you see daddy's car?' " said his mother. "Then there was no answer."
William Tyrrell in his favourite Spider-Man suit.
Credit:NSW Police Media
Within 20 minutes his mother had called police."
https://www.news.com.au/national/co...t/news-story/d0e0d3664d113387adef9083d094040f
"In his opening address, Mr Craddock, told the court William had disappeared while the foster mother and Nanna were drinking tea that was still warm or “not too cold to drink”.
He remarked there were different ways of making or pouring tea and asked the foster mother what was hers or her mother’s preferred way."
The final known movements of missing NSW toddler William Tyrrell have been recounted by his mother at the f...
www.9news.com.au
"* William's foster mother made cups of tea before snapping the now iconic photo of the three-year-old boy sitting on the deck dressed as Spider-Man at 9.37am.
* As the woman and her mother drank tea William jumped around the deck, again roaring while playing a new game called "daddy tiger"."