William Tyrrell’s foster parents to face trial over fraud charges

The foster parents of William Tyrrell will face trial next year for allegedly obtaining financial advantage by deception.

The foster parents of William Tyrrell have denied organising a third party to falsely bid for their multimillion-dollar property at an auction in December 2020. Picture: Jeremy Piper

The foster parents of William Tyrrell will face trial next year for allegedly obtaining financial advantage by deception after police charged the pair for making fake bids on a North Sydney property.

The 55-year-old man and 56-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have denied organising a third party to falsely bid for a home at an auction in December 2020.

The matter is unrelated to the 2014 disappearance of William Tyrrell.

On Friday, a magistrate set the date of the trial to next July after solicitors for the pair entered not guilty pleas on their behalf at Hornsby Local Court last week.

Police allege the couple organised a third party to falsely bid for their multimillion-dollar property, and will play conversations recorded on a listening device at the court hearing.

The couple decided to sell their house at auction six years after William’s disappearance

from his foster grandmother‘s house in Kendall on the state’s Mid North Coast.

Last week, the foster mother was found not guilty of giving false or misleading evidence to the powerful NSW Crime Commission after a magistrate said investigators took “deliberate steps” to catch the woman unaware.

It came after a senior detective claimed the foster mother knows the whereabouts of the three-year-old’s body.

More to come.