Coroner releases Tyrrell papers

THE NSW Coroner has released a trove of documents from the William Tyrrell investigation, including a new image of the missing boy and haunting images of a SpiderMan suit rotting in bushland.

The documents, released on Tuesday, had only partly been revealed at the inquest into the three-year-old’s disappearance. They include a new shot of him playing with crayons in his Spider-Man suit (pictured), showing it had a white spider on the back.

They also reveal the full scope of the surveillance and shadowy tactics used by NSW Police to try to gain evidence against a former person of interest, Paul Savage.

Mr Savage, who has never been charged in relation to William’s disappearance, lives across the road from the Kendall home from where the boy vanished in September 2014. He was thoroughly investigated and no evidence was found connecting him to the disappearance.

In July 2017 police documents allege Mr Savage, on his morning bushwalk, saw scrunched-up blue and red material that was a SpiderMan suit nearly identical to the one worn by William three years prior. He did not know it had been planted by a specialist covert police team that was monitoring him.

The next morning the team watched Mr Savage return to the Spider-Man suit, nudge it with his foot and then hurry home. He later wrote in his diary: “Went for my walk again but found a Spider-Man outfit as I walked up the hill. It was about the right size for William. Hope it helps the police find the little bloke.”

Three weeks later Mr Savage was questioned about the delay in reporting it to police but protested his innocence.

The documents also include traffic camera images of a white Holden Commodore station wagon belonging to Raymond Porter, who allegedly told a nurse on his deathbed that he had picked up William and “his best mate” in Kendall.

But the car did not appear in any images.