‘Where’s the red?’: Mum’s frantic search
William Tyrrell’s inquest starts in Sydney
I stumbled over this (
besides the 3 cars and the 1 driver):
The foster mother agreed with counsel assisting the inquest, Gerard Craddock, SC, that in statements immediately after William’s disappearance she had not mentioned the first two cars she had seen.
Nor had she initially mentioned the large man driving in an old “LTD’ style vehicle about whom she said, “I have seen him and he’s seen me”.
“With William missing it went right out of my mind,” she told the court.
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But six days later, I just had this flash that there were two cars.
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She
(FM) said on the morning of September 12, 2014, her husband had become “frustrated” with the children being noisy.
“I remember saying ‘you just take care of yourself and I will take care of them’.”
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She said
she was still working with police on an image of the person she saw (in 2014), although at the time she had told her daughter it was “probably a neighbour”.
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The foster mother saw the cars
twice, which in the remote street where her mother — William foster grandmother — lived, was an unusual sight.
(would have said "still")
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The foster father had a telephone conference meeting that required “a bit of quiet and a decent internet connection”, and that would be difficult driving with “children in the back”.
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“William was ducking to the northeast corner of the house and then rushing out and roaring at the ladies,” he said.
“They were drinking tea.”
The foster grandmother had “thought William was being very boisterous and loud”, but the foster mother had replied “he’s a boy, that’s just how they are”.
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On one side of the courtroom, the foster parents — who cannot be identified — sat after being
accompanied into court by NSW Police Minister Troy Grant.
They looked grim as they heard the triple-0 call made by the foster mother played in court, and details of the search for William as it became obvious he was nowhere in sight.
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Throughout the investigation, William was referred to “a little boy lost” but police soon came to suspect
something more sinister happened and zeroed in on known paedophiles and criminals from nearby holiday towns.
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The closely-guarded persons of interest list, which ballooned to include hundreds of names over the years, has been whittled down for the inquest’s second sitting in August.
Some names on that list have been previously released by police but
sources say one so-far unidentified person will be watched closely when they are called in front of the inquest.
