William Tyrell: NSW Deputy State Coroner vacates final hearing dates at disappearance inquest
The inquest into the disappearance of NSW toddler William Tyrell has taken a major turn after the coroner cancelled the final dates for evidence.
Evidence and questioning was due to continue but in an unexpected announcement the Deputy State Coroner has moved to close off those dates and move toward a date to deliver the findings of the inquiry.
news.com.au is reporting that a spokesperson for Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame stated that she “has closed the evidence in this inquest”, but is yet to fix a date to deliver the findings.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.In one of Australia’s most widely publicised police investigations, the current inquiry has unearthed a raft of opinion and speculation as the case lingers unsolved for over a decade.
Strike force rosann detectives and forensic police had reportedly been investigating a theory that the boy “must have died in a fall” and his foster mother hid his body out of fear of losing access to another child in her care.
The woman, who can’t be identified, has repeatedly denied having anything to do with William’s disappearance.
The inquest also censored more than 150 pages of Detective Chief Inspector Laidlaw’s statement, which was obtained by news.com.au, because those sections contain “opinions” not “proper fact-finding”, according to the senior lawyer assisting the inquest.
“Several individuals (were) nominated as high-risk persons of interest,” Det-Chief Inspector Laidlaw said.
“No evidence has emerged to indicate that any of these individuals were implicated or possess knowledge of William’s disappearance”.
William Tyrell disappeared on 2014 at age three while playing at his foster grandmother’s house with his sister in Kendall NSW.
Believed to have been abducted and with no breakthrough in the case a reward of $1 million was offered for the recovery of William Tyrrell and did not require the arrest, charging or conviction of any person or persons.
On 15 November 2021, after receiving new evidence, the New South Wales Police Force renewed the search for Tyrrell in three areas surrounding Kendall, assuming that they were searching for human remains.
In 2021 reports that Tyrrell’s foster mother and now-deceased foster grandmother were being treated as persons of interest in his disappearance and the police began investigating the possibility of a fall from a balcony on the property.
