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Offline misty

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #120 on: January 21, 2016, 12:15:12 AM »
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/william-tyrrell-person-of-interest-paul-john-bickford-denies-involvement-in-his-disappearance/news-story/240a0bc3c64bd4ec3067ea56ac8e802d
William Tyrrell person of interest Paul John Bickford denies involvement in his disappearance
January 20, 2016 1:14pm
Neil KeeneThe Daily Telegraph
A CONVICTED paedophile and person of interest in the disappearance of William Tyrrell has laughed off suggestions he was involved in the boy’s suspected abduction.

Speaking with media today outside Port Macquarie Local Court, Paul John Bickford insisted he had never been involved in a paedophile ring suspected of operating on the NSW mid-north coast.

Bickford earlier appeared in court for a separate matter after allegedly breaching orders imposed upon his conviction last year for indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome.
The former president of the Grandparents As Parents Again group, which came under the scrutiny of Strike Force Rosann detectives investigating William Tyrrell’s disappearance, described himself as “just an ordinary guy, really”.

He admitted he had been interviewed twice by police about William, who would now be four years old.

“I’m just being what I always am,” Bickford said.

“I’m telling you the truth, and whether you choose to believe it or not, well that’s really not up to me. It’s up to the public.”

Bickford, said he was “very sad” for William, describing the enduring mystery surrounding his disappearance as “a great tragedy”.
“I feel very sorry for the family, I really do, but there is something very, very strange about the whole business,” he said.

“I’m only a layman but I’m telling you now, there’s definitely more to it than meets the eye.”

Bickford questioned why it had taken a year for police to announce there were two suspicious cars sitting outside his grandparents’ house in Kendall, where he went missing.

“I don’t know where that place is anyway, but I would gather from what we’ve seen that it was very close to the bush because that’s where everybody went to look for the child.”
Bickford said his most recent interview with Strike Force Rosann investigators occurred just four months ago.

“The first one went for just over an hour and the second one probably went for about 15 minutes,” he said.

“They just asked me where I was, what I was doing ... the normal things you would probably ask.”

Bickford said he didn’t know the Tyrrell family, or Bill Spedding — another person of interest in the case.

However, he conceded that he did know Anthony “Tony” Jones, another former member of the Grandparents As Parents Again group who is a person of interest, and who has been convicted of numerous assaults on women and children dating back to the 1970s.

But Bickford said Jones was just “an acquaintance”, rather than a close friend.

“I haven’t got the faintest idea what Tony has done or hasn’t done,” he said.

Both Spedding and Jones deny any involvement in the disappearance of William.

Bickford has not entered a plea to failing to comply with reporting obligations under the Child Protection Act.
Police allege he broke those obligations between 8am and 11am on October 13 last year.

He is due to appear in court again on March 2.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #121 on: January 26, 2016, 10:58:42 PM »
Could someone kindly answer these questions please.

1. Has the grandmother spoken or confirmed the last time that she saw the boy?

2. What footwear was he wearing when he disappeared?

3. Did anyone else see the boy playing outdoors that day e.g. neighbours?

I would like to get a timeline that day from the main witnesses i.e. the family.



« Last Edit: January 26, 2016, 11:02:31 PM by pathfinder73 »
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline misty

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #122 on: January 27, 2016, 12:07:43 AM »
Could someone kindly answer these questions please.

1. Has the grandmother spoken or confirmed the last time that she saw the boy?

2. What footwear was he wearing when he disappeared?

3. Did anyone else see the boy playing outdoors that day e.g. neighbours?

I would like to get a timeline that day from the main witnesses i.e. the family.

This may help you a little.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/how-could-toddler-william-tyrrell-simply-vanish-into-thin-air/story-e6frg6z6-1227308929078

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #123 on: January 27, 2016, 01:03:17 AM »
Thanks Misty. You need to be subscribed to see that link.

Found this about neighbours:

Lydene Heslop also had a hectic morning grocery shopping and was unloading bags from her car before taking them inside.

On that fateful morning of September 12 last year, chance and life conspired to ensure people who would normally have a bird’s-eye view as William and his sister played in the sunshine weren’t there.

Shortly after 10.30am, three-year-old William vanished.

The one question that plagues the residents of Kendall is: How did the culprit or culprits get away with it?

Almost tragically, they ­believe a cruel set of circumstances conspired to give someone the opportunity to snatch William without being seen by a single witness.

At 10.35am on September 12, a number of people could have been expected to be there to stop William being taken.

Except on that day, at that time, they weren’t.

Mother Anne-Maree Sharpley, who lives across the road from William’s grandmother’s house, was sitting ­inside reading a book before deciding to go outside her house to “get some sun”.

“I didn’t hear anything, so if the person who took him came down Benaroon Dr, they did it without panicking or driving fast or taking off like an idiot, because I would’ve heard.”

But by the time she did go outside, William had already been taken.

“I’d taken the kids to school and came home and cleaned up and sat down in the quiet with no TV and was just reading my book,” Ms Sharpley said.

“No cars, no cries, no nothing, it was just quiet.

“I’d actually just got a drink and was walking outside to sit in the sun and (William’s mother) was outside the gate.”

Judy Wilson, whose fence sits just 10m from where William was taken, heard him and his sister playing earlier that morning before she headed into town to run some errands.

When she returned, the street was in chaos.

“I wasn’t home and my husband wasn’t home. The only thing I was able to tell police was that I heard the children playing but didn’t see them … I just heard kids laughing and you could tell they were little children,” Mrs Wilson said.

“I don’t think it was an opportunistic grab from someone who just happened to be here ­because we don’t get strangers wandering around.”

Another Benaroon Dr resident, Lydene Heslop, who lives further down the street, had been grocery shopping and ­returned home minutes before William vanished.

She saw nothing out of the ordinary when she drove into the street and pulled into her driveway.

She said she was unloading groceries from her car when William was snatched sometime after 10.30am, just metres away from her home where her youngest child was inside.

She said at 11.30am there was a knock on the door and it was Anne-Maree from up the road and William’s mother.

“I didn’t hear anything, so if the person who took him came down Benaroon Dr, they did it without panicking or driving fast or taking off like an idiot, because I would’ve heard,” Ms Heslop said.

“That’s pretty good luck. Especially at 10.30am on a Friday when there should only be one kid on the street, which is mine.”

Another mum, Iona Bligh, who lives in the next town and drives her kids to Kendall’s school every day, regularly ran up Benaroon Dr as part of her daily exercise routine.

But on that day, she decided at the last minute she had enough time to drive to a popular mountain track in the township instead, before meeting friends for coffee at the local cafe.

“I’d drop my kids at school and run down Benaroon Dr. I was going to run it that morning before I met some girlfriends for coffee at Miss Nellie’s ... the only reason I didn’t is because I dropped my son at school five minutes early,” Ms Bligh said.

“I kick myself every day.”

The mystery surrounding William’s abduction has not only baffled those closest to the scene, but also the state’s homicide squad, with its ­detectives revisiting the street just last month to go over the neighbours’ testimony once again.

Questions relating to any cars in the area dominated the conversations, as did questions around anyone seen ­visiting the street in the months before the ­abduction, including electricians, couriers and garbage collectors.

William’s grandmother has since moved out of the street, having sold the house to a mature couple just before William’s abduction.

While the town still waits for answers as to what happened to the little boy, parents and grandparents now fear leaving their children unsupervised for even a minute.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/toddler-william-tyrrells-disappearance-still-haunts-kendall-residents-almost-a-year-later/news-story/03fb14d003bfb73d3c193b5f6731f74c

« Last Edit: January 27, 2016, 01:06:21 AM by pathfinder73 »
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline misty

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #124 on: January 27, 2016, 01:34:00 AM »
Sorry about that, P/F - I was able to read the article when I first googled it (should have copied it but I was being lazy) and it had timings for that first morning which included the dad driving off at around 9.15 so he could Skype.

Initial reports did say that mother & grandmother had been on the verandah, went inside & returned to find William missing. That changed in later reports. A lot of info on the family has been withheld.

Websleuths Australia is a good place to look at the story & press links from the very beginning. It's a long read & depends how interested you are in the case.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #125 on: January 27, 2016, 11:55:22 AM »
Driving off at 9:15 to Skype? Thanks. Will check it out. That's over an hour before she was reported missing. What time was the call to the police? 10:30?
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #126 on: January 27, 2016, 12:44:52 PM »
"Mrs Wilson said she heard the two children playing in the neighbouring yard before she left to run errands in the township about 90 minutes before William disappeared, just metre's from her home."

That suggests the children were out early playing and nobody saw them?

What time was recorded on the camera for the last photo?








Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #127 on: January 27, 2016, 01:28:14 PM »
He was wearing sandals.



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« Last Edit: January 27, 2016, 01:32:46 PM by pathfinder73 »
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #128 on: January 27, 2016, 05:42:26 PM »
Have cadaver dogs searched inside that house? Basement? Sniffer dogs only found a scent in the yard. I think a vehicle would have been spotted.
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline misty

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #129 on: January 27, 2016, 11:14:06 PM »
Have cadaver dogs searched inside that house? Basement? Sniffer dogs only found a scent in the yard. I think a vehicle would have been spotted.

This doesn't state the dogs went inside the house but the property was thoroughly searched.
I'd provide more, but the page takes forever to scroll.
*snipped*

Supt Fehon said investigators had recanvassed the area near where William was last seen in the past weeks, including searching a 1.5km radius with specialist cadaver dogs.
'We've still got a dedicated team in excess of 10 analysts and investigators working full-time and they're going to explore every possible avenue.


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There were cars spotted. 2 were located & one owner, another convicted paedophile, has been questioned.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #130 on: January 28, 2016, 12:16:23 AM »
Thanks Misty. All humans have their own unique odour so if the dogs didn't track the child leaving the property then inside that house needs to be properly investigated with cadaver dogs. I think they would have done it. I read the grandmother sold and moved out of that house just after the disappearance  &%+((£

Spedding in that link would be very foolish to carry out work there then go back days later to abduct a child.
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline misty

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #131 on: January 28, 2016, 12:46:14 AM »
Thanks Misty. All humans have their own unique odour so if the dogs didn't track the child leaving the property then inside that house needs to be properly investigated with cadaver dogs. I think they would have done it. I read the grandmother sold and moved out of that house just after the disappearance  &%+((£

Spedding in that link would be very foolish to carry out work there then go back days later to abduct a child.
The lead detective on this case is pretty meticulous, judging from what I've read. The specialist dogs would have been inside the house, no doubt about it.
The house has been put up for sale again since the grandmother left.. There are some photos which include a few good shots of the verandah here.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/29855192/william-tyrell-kidnap-house-for-sale/
The one thing a paedophile finds very difficult is not giving in to temptation.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #132 on: January 28, 2016, 01:23:12 AM »
Thanks for the link. The mother was inside the house and the grandmother outside when he went missing so they were not together for how long? I would like to know the time of the last photo taken that morning. Establishing a timeline is crucial. That is a dead end road so a vehicle would likely be seen leaving. Neighbours were returning home or leaving around that time. The mother reported seeing 2 parked cars. Did anyone else witness these cars parked where she said?
« Last Edit: January 28, 2016, 01:26:59 AM by pathfinder73 »
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline misty

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #133 on: January 28, 2016, 02:00:29 AM »
Thanks for the link. The mother was inside the house and the grandmother outside when he went missing so they were not together for how long? I would like to know the time of the last photo taken that morning. Establishing a timeline is crucial. That is a dead end road so a vehicle would likely be seen leaving. Neighbours were returning home or leaving around that time. The mother reported seeing 2 parked cars. Did anyone else witness these cars parked where she said?

http://video.news.com.au/v/333835/William-Tyrrells-parents-The-full-interview

The story is not quite the same in this interview if it's the one I remember watching.
One of the vehicles was definitely traced, see post #115.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell, 3, still missing
« Reply #134 on: January 28, 2016, 12:33:56 PM »
Now that is a strong lead Tony Jones a neighbour of Spedding. Interesting going to follow it thanks.
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.