Former top cop's shocking William Tyrrell call
The former NSW police commissioner has made a sobering call about the future of the William Tyrrell investigation.
In an exclusive interview with news.com.au podcast Witness: William Tyrrell, former police commissioner Mick Fuller said that despite running an "extremely professional investigation”, he was doubtful if the case would ever be solved.
“It was never going to be easy to solve and maybe it won’t get solved this time,” he said.
“But, you know, people won’t give up … there are new police coming through that will take over this case from (current lead detective) Dave Laidlaw at some stage, and there’ll be another fresh set of eyes there.”
William Tyrrell was just three years old when he disappeared from his foster grandmother's home in Kendall, NSW on September 12th 2014.
No one has been charged or arrested in connection to his disappearance, and the team investigating the case Strike Force Rosann has recovered no forensic or eye witness evidence to indicate what happened to the child.
At the time of Fuller's retirement in 2022, Detective Chief Inspector Mr Laidlaw was brought in to lead a refreshed Strike Force into Tyrrell's disappearance.
At the time, Fuller told 2GB the group assembled was “one of the best teams we’ve seen” and was hopeful of a breakthrough in the investigation.
Speaking with news.com.au, Mr Fuller said, “I would love to say that this matter was solved before I retired.”
“Unfortunately, it wasn’t. And sometimes it takes 30, 40 years for these type of matters to be solved,” he said. “And unfortunately, then sometimes they’re never solved.”
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