New images back foster parents’ William Tyrrell timeline

The NSW coroner has released new photographs of the missing boy on his way to Kendall.

The female foster carer and male foster carer, with William Tyrrell on his shoulders, far right, at McDonald’s Heatherbrae.

The NSW coroner has released new photographs of the missing boy, William Tyrrell, taken by the CCTV cameras at McDonald’s on his way to the village of Kendall.

The images show William and his sister having a treat meal at the McDonald’s near Heatherbrae, NSW, at around 6.25pm on Thursday 11 September 2014.

He went missing the next day.

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William and his sister were travelling to Kendall with their foster parents, to see his foster Mum’s Mum, whom he called Nana.

The images are important pieces of evidence in the case, because they show William on the path to Kendall.

A female foster carer, male foster carer, William Tyrrell and his sister were captured on CCTV entering McDonald’s Heatherbrae. William is on the shoulders of the male foster carer.

William’s foster parents have testified that they left their home in Sydney at around 3pm on the 11th, to visit Kendall for the weekend.

They have said they dropped their cats at a boarding house, and picked up the children from child care.

They stopped at a Caltex en route and then at the McDonald’s.

The CCTV from McDonald’s is time-stamped 6.25pm, which is precisely when they said they arrived.

The family arrived at Kendall, on the mid-north coast of NSW, at around 9pm.

Kendall is about two-and-half hours from Heatherbrae.

William went missing at around 10.30am the next day, Friday the 12th. He was playing in the garden of his foster mother’s mum’s house, at 48 Benaroon Drive, roaring like a tiger, when everything went quiet.

The coroner also released a statement by one of the first police officers on the scene, Constable Wendy Hudson, who said she was home at around 12.20pm when her sister, Allison, called to say a boy was missing.

She asked her teenage sons, Jayden and Blake, to help in the search and they did, scouring the bush for hours.

The last known photo of William Tyrrell.

Constable Hudson said in her statement that she asked William’s sister if he had “any hidey spots.” She said he didn’t.

Senior Constable Hudson’s statement also explains how she helped the foster parents leave Kendall a week after William’s disappearance, by following their car down the highway toward Sydney for several kilometres, to make sure they weren’t being tailed.

William’s foster parents believe that he was abducted, and that it could have been random, but also a well-organised kidnap.

An inquest into William’s disappearance was recently adjourned until next March.