Three-year-old William Tyrrell’s foster mother – who cannot be named – has described what she believes were her son’s final moments in heartbreaking detail at the coronial inquest into his disappearance on Tuesday.
“It was like a scream. It was like when a child hurts themselves unexpectedly there’s a scream,” she recounted to counsel assisting the coroner Gerard Craddock SC on day-two of the inquest
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“It felt like a scream,” she said of September 12, 2014, the day he vanished from his foster grandmother’s rural property at Kendall, on the NSW mid-north coast. “It was quick and it was high pitched and it was sharp.”
According to Daily Mail, she said she questioned whether she’d just heard a bird, because she couldn’t “see the red” of his now-infamous Spiderman suit.
“I got into the bush and I thought, I can’t see any red. I thought, maybe I imagined it. Maybe it’s as a bird. I thought, I’m just going to walk back. And I walked back.”
She then recall the instant feeling of panic returning to the home without William in heartbreaking detail. “I couldn’t hear a thing. It was silent. There was no wind. No birds. Nothing. Couldn’t hear a thing. All I could think was, why can’t I hear him? Why can’t I see the red. I’m standing there and, why can’t I see him? Why can’t I hear him. It was silence. I couldn’t hear a thing.”
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