William Tyrrell’s biological mother revealed concerns to police about her son after he vanished

William Tyrrell’s biological mother told police her son had a “black eye” the last time she was allowed to see him and she was worried he was “too skinny”. The claims have been released in a statement she made to police two days after he vanished on September 12, 2014 from his new foster parents’ property.

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EXCLUSIVE: William Tyrrell’s biological mother told police her son had a “black eye” the last time she was allowed to see him and she was worried he was “too skinny”.

William Tyrell’s biological mother was worried her son was “too skinny” the last time she saw him.

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She was detailing her last recollections of William from the supervised contact visit she had with him on August 21, at Chipmunks play centre at Macquarie Park.

“Just before then (a social worker) called me to confirm the visit and he also told me William had a black eye,” she told police.

“He said William was climbing on the (foster mother) and he had lost his balance and fell and that was how he got his black eye.

“When I saw William … I could see a faint bruise under his eye.”

William Tyrrell has been missing since September, 2014.

She said she was distressed at not knowing who was looking after her son.

“I am a bit worried about … William because I think (he’s) a bit too skinny. It’s hard because I don’t know the carers, I don’t know where they live and I never get to see them.”

The police statement, which can be released after it was used as evidence in this week’s coronial inquest into William disappearance, also shed new light on why William was removed from his biological family.

Emergency services search for William Tyrrell for a second time. Picture: Nathan Edwards

“From what I know DOCS were happy for me to care for William on my own, but when they knew (the father) and I were back together, based on our history, they got a court order to have him removed from me,” she told police.

She told police there was a history of domestic violence in her relationship with William’s father and she herself had assaulted a police officer.

She said her next contact visit with William — she was allowed six each year — was scheduled for October, the month after he vanished.

William Tyrrell in the Spiderman outfit he went missing in.

“Up until the beginning of the year William called me Mum,” she told police.

“The last time I saw William he didn’t really call me anything but the visit before that he called me his Birth Mum. It upsets me.

“I want my children back. I don’t want them to be with them forever.”

All four biological and foster parents gave evidence in person at this week’s inquest before Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame, detailing how he wandered into oblivion while playing happily in his Spider-Man suit.

Another four weeks of hearings are due to take place in August, focusing on persons of interest in the case.