
–With AAP.
1. Witness says he saw a child wearing a Spider-Man suit in the back of a car the day William Tyrrell was taken.
The inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell has implored a mystery woman to come forward after a witness said he saw her driving away from the Kendall area with a small boy on the day the toddler vanished.
Giving evidence before the inquest into William’s disappearance, local resident Ronald Chapman says he saw a woman drive past his Laurel Street home in the NSW mid-north coast town on September 12, 2014, in a “fawn-coloured four-wheel drive” with a boy dressed in a Spider-Man suit in the back seat.
William was three years old and wearing a Spider-Man suit when he went missing from his foster grandmother’s home that same day.
“In the backseat was a young boy with his hands up on the window [facing] outwards on the glass of the window,” Chapman told the inquest, as reported by the ABC.
“He was standing and unrestrained. He wasn’t crying. He was wearing a Spider-Man suit.
“I definitely saw William. I am 100 per cent certain it was William in the back of the car… no doubt.”
Chapman, a retiree, described the driver he saw as a woman “in her late 20s or early 30s,” with blonde tied-up hair.
After Chapman gave evidence on Wednesday, the counsel assisting the coroner, Gerard Craddock, made a plea for additional information.
“If there is a lady out there who was driving a… car with a child in the car, we do want that person to come forward,” he said.