William Tyrrell search turns as police divers search tank at his foster grandmother’s Kendall home

A team of police divers have returned to William Tyrrell’s foster grandmother’s home to inspect a rainwater tank.  

A group of detectives discreetly left the main search zone – 700m from William’s late foster grandmother’s home in Kendall on NSW’s mid-north coast – about 1.30pm on Wednesday.

They then inspected the Benaroon Drive home’s water tank with a camera. The tank is located directly underneath the property’s five metre tall verandah. 

Members of the police dive squad lowered a GoPro-style camera fitted to a pole into the tank to film what was inside.

William Tyrrell (pictured) vanished from his foster grandmother’s house in Kendall, on the NSW mid north coast in 2014 sparking an enduring police investigation

His foster grandmother’s house (pictured) where William was said to have been playing outside before he vanished 

Dog Constable ‘Wags’ finishes a search of a fresh area near Cobb and Co Road at Kendall on Tuesday as they scour for clues into William’s disappearance

Forensic officers and detectives used their hands to sort through dirt unearthed by a digging machine

They’re now assessing the footage. 

Last week, police revealed they were investigating whether William fell from the home’s balcony to his death.

While the majority of the taskforce is still combing through enormous swathes of bushland at the main search site on Batar Creek Road, a handful of officers were seen connecting a hose to the tank.

It’s not clear if the tank was drained in the initial search for William when he disappeared seven years ago on September 12, 2014.

The home once owned by the young boy’s foster grandmother now belongs to a very private man who has nothing to do with the case of the family. 

She was under no legal obligation to declare the grim recent history of the home to the new owner and her identity, like those of William’s foster parents, was suppressed. 

The back verandah (pictured) of the house has a five metre drop to the ground – which has recently been inspected by police

The new owner of the house has been holed up as teams of police scour the house and surrounding land 

Last Monday, dozens of officers descended on the new owner’s home and told him they were investigating whether William’s remains could be on or near the property.

For the second time since moving into his quiet, peaceful dead-end road toward the back of Kendall, the new owner of the home – who Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to name – found himself at the mercy of detectives simply doing their jobs. 

‘I feel really, really sympathetic for him,’ one local who has lived in town all his life said. ‘I just am really sorry for him.’

A police forensic pathologist on Monday directs a digging team as they meticulously search the grounds (pictured) 

He’s spent the last eight days holed up inside with only the company of his pet Rottweiler, occasionally stepping out to run errands. 

The man has tried to keep a low profile as reporters camp out the front and police traipse through his property hunting for clues.

A specially trained cadaver dog was brought in to scour underneath his home for evidence, his garden bed has been dug up and a concrete slab laid in the garage of the home was scrutinised by the Australian Federal Police using a ground penetrating scanner.

Dozens of police have descended on the house to hunt for new clues into the disappearance (pictured) in the last few weeks

Specially trained dogs (pictured on Monday) were brought in to assist in the search 

The AFP’s Forensic Imagery and Geometrics team looked into any abnormalities under the slab by bouncing an image off the machine’s radar.

He, like his neighbours and the wider community, are said to be hopeful that this search will yield a different result than in the past.

‘This is the single worst thing that’s ever happened to us here,’ a neighbour said. ‘We all want William found and to put him to rest if that’s what it’s come to.’

But this reinvigorated search has others on edge. It’s not the first time they’ve heard whispers of a breakthrough in the case, and many are wary of getting their hopes up again.

Police revealed new information had led them back to Kendall, and three dig sites in particular identified as potential covert burial sites have become the focus of their efforts.