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‘Hundreds of years’: Court hears key in William Tyrrell mystery​

The inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell has heard there is no forensic evidence pointing to the fate of the young boy, 10 years after his disappearance.

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November 4, 2024 - 5:09PM

William Tyrrell’s Spider-Man suit would have taken hundreds of years to break down and no traces of the little boy were found during a painstaking forensic search of the Kendall area, an inquest has heard.

The final tranche of hearings is focusing in on a police theory that William died in an accidental fall from a veranda and his foster mother covered up the accident by disposing of his body.

It’s an allegation that has been persistently and vehemently denied by the foster mother.
 

Steve Zemek
Mon 4 November 2024 at 5:10 pm AEDT

William Tyrrell’s Spider-Man suit would have taken hundreds of years to break down and no traces of the little boy were found during a painstaking forensic search of the Kendall area, an inquest has heard.
 

Mostafa Rachwani and AAP
Mon 4 Nov 2024 17.24 AEDT

On Monday, counsel assisting Gerard Craddock SC reopened the inquest for a fifth round of evidence, saying the focus would be on a theory the foster mother was involved in unlawfully disposing of William’s body after his accidental death.

He said the prevailing theory was that the boy’s foster mother found him already deceased after a fall from the balcony at the Kendall property.

Police believe the foster mother might have then loaded his body into her mother’s Mazda.

Police believe she then alerted a neighbour to the boy’s alleged disappearance, before driving down the road to dispose of his remains in some undergrowth, the deputy NSW coroner Harriet Grahame heard.

It was only then that she called triple zero, according to investigators’ theory.

“Police assert that she must have quickly resolved that if the accidental death were to be discovered, she might lose [her other foster child],” Craddock said.

Craddock said that 2021 search “left nothing to chance”.

The foster mother has always denied having anything to do with William’s disappearance.
 




Expert combed through a rubbish dump in the hunt for William Tyrrell's body - as detectives reveal shocking theory they believe solves the mystery​

  • The William Tyrrell inquest is entering its final weeks
  • Police have a theory he fell from the verandah and died
  • His foster parents have denied disposing of his corpse
By CANDACE SUTTON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 13:32 AEDT, 4 November 2024 | Updated: 09:42 AEDT, 6 November 2024

The body-hunter expert who helped locate the remains of murdered Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe has told the William Tyrrell inquest he searched a rubbish dump and creeks for the toddler's body.

He said he didn’t find the boy's remains, but admitted animals could have removed them like they do with kangaroo carcasses.

Water and soil scientist Professor Jon Olley headed the search for ‘cloth or bone’, or any remains of William, in an area where police believe William was dumped, which included a neighbour’s rubbish tip.

'William under his own steam could not travel beyond the area of the intensive search,' he said. 'The conclusion there must have been human intervention.

'It's beyond argument that no eye eyewitness can provide an account about how he left the boundaries of 48 Benaroon Drive.'
 

Police have still gathered no forensic evidence explaining how William Tyrrell went missing 10 years ago, the long-running inquest into the toddler’s disappearance was told as it resumed.

On Monday, the Lidcombe Coroner’s Court heard the inquest into William’s fate was sitting again to review NSW Police’s latest “theory” on how the child vanished.
Gerard Craddock SC, the Counsel Assisting the Coroner, said a statement from the lead investigator on the case Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw had been heavily redacted as it was “in the form of one person’s opinions about what evidence shows”.

Mr Craddock told the inquest on Monday there were two other people – the Crabbes – on Benaroon Dr who also told police of hearing a car on the street that morning.

It was determined the car was heard by the Crabbes about 10.08am to 10.13am, which was around the time William was meant to have disappeared.
 

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