Tyrrell’s foster mum breaks silence with heartfelt plea

William Tyrrell’s foster mother has tearfully pleaded with Australian police to concentrate on finding the missing boy after she was sensationally acquitted of lying to the NSW Crime Commission.

Magistrate Miranda Moody yesterday found the woman not guilty of knowingly giving false or misleading evidence during the secret hearing that was examining the three-yearold’s disappearance.

“Her Honour has given a detailed judgment today about the circumstances surrounding this charge being brought against me,” the foster mother said. “She’s found me not guilty of lying to the crime commission. With this behind me, I hope that police focus on finding William and what happened to him.”

Police had alleged the foster mother lied or misled NSW Crime Commission officials during a twoday hearing last November when she said during evidence that she did not strike a child with a wooden spoon. The child was not William Tyrrell. Moody said she could not find beyond a reasonable doubt that the woman had lied.

She noted that it was never alleged that the foster mother had been violent towards William or harmed him.

Rather, police and the crime commission questioned her over whether William had died as the result of an accident and she had dumped his body.

William was in the care of the foster mother and her partner when he vanished in 2014 while at his foster grandmother’s NSW home. No one has ever been charged over his disappearance. and the foster parents deny any knowledge or involvement.

Detective Sergeant Andrew Lonergan told the court that he believed that William had been buried in an area on the outskirts of Kendall.