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A sister’s devotion must drive us to find William Tyrrell
She wrote her little speech herself, and recorded it onto a mobile phone so NSW deputy state coroner Harriet Grahame could hear it. And so it was that her voice rang out, clear and beautiful as the chime of a bell.
“I hope this speech makes you solve the case,” she said. “If it doesn’t, when I’m officially an adult, I will be a police officer, a detective specifically, and I will find my brother and I won’t give up until he’s found.”
And oh, how poised she sounded. There was not a waver. No dry eyes, either. Because, of course, it can’t be left to a little girl to solve this monstrous crime.
Laidlaw strove to assure the court everything that could have been done to find William had now been done. Police have tried to identify every car in the vicinity of Benaroon Drive that morning, by taking CCTV from the Kendall Tennis Club, and by looking at footage from speed and mobile phone cameras on the nearby freeway — and calling on every owner of the registration plates asking them to explain themselves.
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That is gutting for his loved ones, but then the entire inquest has been frustrating. Counsel assisting Gerard Craddock adopted far too ponderous an approach to the evidence. He was slow to the get to the point, or else there seemed to be no point.