William being lost in the bush - After the coroner has examined all the searches and been to Kendall to look at the disappearance sight, I imagine that she could have ordered further searches if she thought something had been missed. I personally don't think WT wandered into the bush, based on him "not being a wanderer", and any real access to the bush was across the road after the bend in the road or the end of Benaroon dr. My personal experience having lived with the bush is that kids don't enter into it, off a path at such a young age. The Australian bush is frightening, dirty, prickly etc. off track.There seems to be a lot of things still remaining. William being lost in the bush, FA, PS, GO, FM. Unless they can clearly eliminate those things - other than FM - there will be reasonable doubt. imo
PS- appears to have an alibi up until 10.37, when his wife left for Bingo. Phone records show he was on the phone at 10.07. Laura Beacroft personally puts the disappearance at approx. 10.05am. https://www.news.com.au/national/ns...g/news-story/0065afefa387da4d1ffef1a6550a3877
FA's morbid interest in WT's case is probably due to his criminal tendencies but nothing places him at the scene, on foot or in a vehicle. No witness accounts. Testimony about what RP said whilst in hospital, dying, is interesting and I don't think we will ever hear the context of the interviews police did with RP, however, I'm sure the coroner would have that in front of her and be able to analyse that information for herself. It's difficult to believe FA had WT and in the midst of hundreds of searchers hid behind a shed in Kendall with him waiting for a lift 300km north in RP's car which I think has been proven to have been in the vicinity of Port Macquarie when it should have been travelling. His degree of separation to GO is interesting and GO to the house.
GO- the only reason he stands out in my opinion is because he lived on the same block of land for a while with FA. I'm unaware of a criminal record. He is not placed at the scene on foot or in a vehicle. What was interesting to me though was the FGM ringing GO the very afternoon WT went missing and cancelling an appointment for him to come to the house the following Tuesday. Seems she didn't think he would be found locally from the 1st day.
I think there is reasonable doubt in the aforementioned POI's.
FM was at the scene of the disappearance. FM disappeared from view of the other people at the house at the same time she discovered she could not find WT. Neither of those other people have corroborated the FM's statement that she sang out that he was missing and went through all the cupboards etc. looking for him. They seemed to not know until approx. 5 minutes before FFC decided to phone the police that WT had disappeared. FM left the scene at some time in her mother's car, before informing anyone that WT was missing. It seems someone witnessed her drive and it would be great to know at what time the witness believes that they saw her. From the moment the FFC walked around the corner of the house until she came into contact with someone outside of the house, her actions need to be probed. If we go by the timeline, there is the potential of 1/2 an hour that the FFC was alone with no one knowing WT had disappeared. Also, if you are initially looking for the child on the property inside and outside the house, others at the house would hear you. You would walk past the others and say, " has he come around the other side of the house?" You would yell indoors whilst searching every room. The other 2 people did not seem to be aware or this activity. The fact that GJ did not probe this in his interview of the FFC when he called the foster parents in, with these weird anomoleys is seriously disturbing.
Having said that, The FGM seems to think she saw MFC's return whilst on the street with AMS, FFC thought she went to AMS before MFC's return. AMS believed she heard a male voice calling out for WT from behind 48 Benaroon dr. before the initial meeting of FFC. Usually I would go with what the majority think except AMS timeline, link up with MFC's timeline. He sent a text at 10.30 from the Kendall general store saying he would be home soon and that drive to Benaroon is about 2 minutes. His video walk through shows he was calling out at the back of the property. AMS says, FFC came to her gate at 10.40am. It's interesting that 2 people who entered the disappearance scene who don't know each other, MFC and AMS appear to be in sync in their timelines but the 2 adults at the scene seem to be having very different experiences of the timeline. IMO
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