In a secret police recording, the foster mother of the missing three-year-old William Tyrrell confided that she was “not coping”, a court has heard.
William Tyrrell’s foster mother was captured on a secret recording saying police had “f—ed up” the investigation into the missing boy and were now trying to trip her up.
The October 2021 phone call was among multiple recordings played on day three of a hearing in Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday. The woman and her 56-year-old husband were charged after listening devices placed in their home during the investigation into William’s disappearance allegedly captured them assaulting and intimidating another child.for kicking the child in the thigh and hitting them with a wooden spoon, but denied any intimidation of that child.
“I’m going to, but I can’t now because there is no one to tell. You’re a bad mother,” the child replied. “There’s a lot going on for me that you don’t know about ... huge amount of pressure that I have right now. Your poking of the bear is triggering me. I am right at the end of my coping.”“The last thing I want is for you to be thinking, ‘I need to live somewhere else’,” the foster mother said to the child. “If you were my flesh and blood, I’d have to love you. I don’t have to love you, but I do.
The officer-in-charge of the investigation Detective Senior Constable Sean Ogilvy was cross-examined by the foster mother’s barrister John Stratton, SC, on Wednesday afternoon.
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