
We all know that last known photo of missing three-year-old William Tyrrell: The young boy, roaring like a tiger, dressed in his Spider-Man suit on his foster grandmother’s veranda.
We’ve seen it so many times since his disappearance from Kendall, on the NSW mid north coast on September 12, 2014.
Almost five years on, the New South Wales Coroner has ordered an urgent forensic examination of the last known photograph of William with confusion over when exactly it was taken.
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At the inquest into William’s disappearance, counsel assisting the Coroner, Gerard Craddock SC, said in his opening statement the photograph was taken at 9.37am and “That is a time of which we can be certain”.
That time set the window in which William disappeared as being between 9.37am and 10.57am, when his foster mother called triple-0.
However the photograph, which provides crucial “proof-of-life” evidence, will be examined by a photographic metadata expert, The Australian reported, after a 2000-page document revealed a “created time” of 7.39am and a “corrected time” of 9.37am.
The Australian said the report revealed the image is a .jpg created on a digital camera, and it said: “Created: 12/09/2014 07:39:54. Corrected time: 12/09/2014 09:37:44”.