Bombshell development in the case of missing boy William Tyrrell as police prepare to charge his foster mum over his disappearance
The foster mother of missing boy William Tyrrell may be charged over his death, it can be revealed.
Nine News reported the 58-year-old woman who cannot be named for legal reasons has been at the centre of an intense investigation over the past year.
Police believe they have enough evidence to charge the foster with perverting the course of justice and interfering with a corpse and have prepared a brief of evidence for the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.
The three-year-old, dressed in a Spider-Man outfit, vanished while playing in the garden of his foster grandmother’s home in the small NSW mid-north coast town of Kendall shortly before 10.30am on September 12, 2014.
Within hours, hundreds of local residents and emergency service workers combined to search the rural community, looking in scrub, creeks and paddocks for William. But no trace of him was ever found.
William disappeared from his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall, on the NSW north coast, on September 12, 2014, and has not been seen since
The former home and surrounds of William Tyrrell’s foster grandmother is searched by police for clues in November, 2021
The investigation previously stalled when the findings of a coronial inquest that ran from March 2019 to October 2020 were blocked by police.
Detectives cited ‘new evidence’ that shone a spotlight on William’s foster mother as the reason behind the delay but have remained tightlipped on what caused investigators to redefine the woman as a suspect.
William’s foster mother and father have always denied having any knowledge of what happened to the three-year-old the day her vanished without a trace.
The looming charge comes just one day after what would be his 12th birthday.
On Monday, NSW Police wrote in a statement on William’s birthday, June 26, that the ‘determination of strike force detectives has never wavered as they continue to meticulously explore and exhaust every line of inquiry’.
‘As another of William Tyrrell’s birthdays comes and goes – on what should be a happy occasion – the NSW Police Force continues to actively and vigorously search for answers into his disappearance,’ the statement continued.
William, three, has not been seen since 2014, despite being one of Australia’s most high profile cold cases.
Late last year, it was revealed that the NSW Crime Commission had grilled William Tyrrell’s foster mother, accusing her of hiding the toddler’s body after the boy fell from the verandah of the Kendall home.
Extraordinary details emerged in a Sydney court about how NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes and counsel assisting Sophie Callan piled pressure onto the then 58-year-old in closed door hearings last November.
The grilling was detailed during a NSW Local Court hearing into charges that the foster mother had lied to the NSW Crime Commission, which were later dismissed by a magistrate.
The former home and surrounds of William Tyrrell’s foster grandmother is searched by police for clues in November, 2021
The foster mother had faced court to fight a charge she gave false or misleading evidence to the Crime Commission – with a senior detective telling the court he believed the foster mother ‘knows where William Tyrrell is’.
The court heard police told the foster mother ‘we know why, we know how’ William disappeared and his body was disposed of.
In fiery evidence put before the Crime Commission and played to the Downing Centre court, the foster mother repeatedly denied the accusations about William.
She challenged investigators to ‘dig up’ the area where they claimed the three-year-old’s remains were buried.
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