Missing boy William Tyrrell’s doomed life - August 2019 - News.com.au
August 25 to September 1: Foster mother tees up visit with her husband to travel with William and his sister to her mother’s place on Benaroon Drive, Kendall, to sort through property prior to house sale.
Week beginning September 8: Contracts due to be exchanged on Benaroon Drive house after foster grandmother sells property to a friend of a friend.
About the same period: Ben Atwood calls William’s birth mother to tee up October visit. Birth mother is worried
William is “a bit too skinny”.
11 September, 2014:
2.50pm: On a last minute change of plan, the foster mother and father leave their Sydney home, drop their cats at kennels.
4pm: The foster parents collect William and his sister from childcare and start the drive up to Kendall one day earlier than planned, via the F3, stopping en route at Caltex, Wyong and then, at 6.35pm, Raymond Terrace McDonalds.
9pm: Foster parents and William and his sister arrive at Benaroon Drive. The kids are put to bed in different rooms and the foster mother discusses broken washing machine with her mother.
8am: William and his sister wake up the foster grandmother.
The foster father, foster grandmother and William’s sister are in front of the foster mother, while William is behind her.
The foster father gets frustrated with all the noise.
The children play with the bikes kept at the property and race up the driveway,
William deliberately crashing his into the garden.
Between 9am and 9.30am: Foster father leaves Benaroon Drive for Laurieton township to buy prescription drugs from pharmacy and conduct business call via Skype.
William and his sister draw pictures and roll dice on the verandah of the house, William rolling ‘the dice very hard” and “jumping out of his skin with energy”.
The foster mother photographs William for the last time.
He is “roaring” in a tiger game on the verandah.
William gets bored and runs down from the verandah onto the grass.
It is now after 10am, probably between 10.10am and 10.30am.
On or after 10.30am: The foster father returns in his vehicle and when told by the foster mother William has disappeared, the foster father “just bolted ... running for William”
10.56am: Foster mother dials triple-0 informing police she’s the mother of a boy called William who has been missing for approximately 15-20 minutes.
11.06am: Police arrive at Benaroon Drive. Neighbours and locals join in search with police.
William’s foster mother calls the Salvation Army.
William Tyrrell’s doomed life
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Points of concern
- William is “a bit too skinny”.
- The foster father gets frustrated with all the noise.
- William deliberately crashing his bike into the garden.
- He is “roaring” in a tiger game on the verandah.
Comments
- Was WT not eating properly as his birth mother noticed he look too skinny? Why? Was he missing his BM?
- MFC was in his early 50s so if he was concerned with the noise on this day, had he been concerned with the noise on other days and his patience was running out?
- If you have given a child a bike, it would upset most parents if the child deliberately crashed it into the garden especially if it broke
- WT's roaring and making a noise again could it have upset both FGM who was in her 70s and FFC in her late 40s
I was 40yo when I had my last child, and the best days of my life were when I was a stay at home mum and my two children were preschoolers. I used to play with them in organised activities. Each activity only lasted for about five minutes as that was their attention span - art, music, early reading, dance, pool, games and so on. We had rules and boundaries which had to be respected. Other friends often brought their children to my house to join in. If WT had anything like hyperactivity, you simply have to change the child's diet. But I get the impression from the FP's comments that WT was causing a lot of stress in their family. I realise that WT was not in his home environment but he seemed to have things to do there but IMO the FPs were not engaged with him.