Time of William’s disappearance:
JMO – There is something wrong in this:
These are the facts that I have used:
1. FFC - She says that it was 10.30am (000 call says that) …. Was this an estimate by her OR did she know for sure?
2. Detective Inspector Laidlaw says it was 10.10 – 10.15
IN THEIR WORDS: William Tyrrell's parents talk of the day their boy went missing and the 'living nightmare' they endure
“D: I had a meeting and I arrived back and there was a bit of confusion if William was with me, because he’s always looking out for me and my car, and I was on my way back, and I’d arrived back and been asked if William was with me and I said no, then I immediately got out of the car and started looking around, and within 5 minutes we raised the alarm and I think I ran the perimeter of the whole street within about 10-15 minutes, and I mean, he wouldn’t, he’s not a wanderer, he wouldn’t even cross the street by himself. He wouldn’t go far.”
1. FFC would have been searching for William
BEFORE THE TIME of MFC’s text message (which was sent at 10.30am exactly).
2. From Laidlaw’s time of 10.10 – 10.15 (that search time duration would have been for approx 20 minutes (and at 10.56am, she told the 000 Operator that they had been searching for 15 – 20 mins,
My point is: when the Operator said “OK. So he's been missing since about 10:30?”, and FFC replied “Yeah I’d say so”). SO, when the Operator asked: How long has he been missing? FFC didn’t know (she answered: “I th... well, I think, well, we've been looking for him now for about fifteen or twenty minutes but...”.
3. AT THE POINT THAT she had discovered William to be missing)
she hadn’t received the text message from MFC! ……
My point is:
and she wouldn’t then (at that time) have thought that William could be with MFC!
4. If she had been aware of the real time at the time that she noticed ‘William was quiet’, then she would have told 000 Operator that William had been missing since approx 10.15am.
5. SO, BECAUSE she has said that she had searched down the side of the house to the road, and MFC’s vehicle wouldn’t have been in sight …. so when he finally arrived, she would know that William would not have been in the vehicle with him.
6. To construct her story later (when she was asked for those details by LE), because she didn’t know the actual time when she noticed William had gone missing, FFC has obviously used MFC’s text message time (10.30) as a starting time (text time message time on their phones is valid).
7. Question: Why did MFC say when he arrived back at 10.35am: that FFC then asked him “Is William with you?” and he replied: “No, why would he be with me?”
…. Was that just pure embellishment of their interaction?
(Was MFC just trying to support FFC with her description of William’s disappearance?)
(Counsel assisting the coroner, Gerard Craddock SC, asked the man: “You didn’t stop and have a conversation with her [the foster mother] about where she’d already searched, is there any reason for that?”).
William Tyrrell's foster father 'hysterical' when child went missing, inquest hears
The man said he had driven to nearby Lakewood about 9am for a strong internet connection for a conference call and planned to return to the house about 10.30am.
He sent a text to his wife about that time to say he would be home in five minutes.
The foster mother called police at 10.56am to report the missing boy, estimating he had been gone since 10.30am.
Counsel assisting the coroner, Gerard Craddock SC, asked the man: “You didn’t stop and have a conversation with her [the foster mother] about where she’d already searched, is there any reason for that?”
“I had assumed in the time that I got home, if she couldn’t find him, that she’d already actually done the immediate area including inside and outside the house,” he said.
CONSIDER: IF MFC had not sent that text to her THEN she would probably not have known what the real time was!
and so instead, if he had not sent the ‘home in 5’ text to her, he would have just arrived back at Benaroon at 10.35am.
AND CONSEQUENTLY: Because she knew that she had already been searching for William for 20 mins (which had commenced at the time she had noticed him to be missing ..say 10.15) when MFC drove back into the Benaroon driveway.
5. Without actually knowing what time William ‘had gone quiet’,
the only time that she had become aware of was the time of MFC’s text …. 10.30am, so that became the time she told the 000 Operator.