Almost seven years after toddler William Tyrrell disappeared, New South Wales detectives are reportedly focusing on a new suspect.
According to the Daily Telegraph, investigators are turning their attention to a new suspect who had previously been ruled out after uncovering new clues.
“It shines a totally new complexion on what investigators believe happened to William,” a senior police officer told the publication.
NSW Police will reinterview the subject in light of the new evidence.
Three-year-old William went missing in September 2014 from his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall, on the NSW Mid North Coast.
Despite hundreds of local residents and emergency service workers quickly searching the community, William was yet to be found.
Police formed the belief that his disappearance was a result of human intervention.
In September 2016, the NSW government announced a $1 million reward for information that leads to William, with the offer still available.
Since then, detectives from Strike Force Rosann have conducted extensive investigations and coordinated searches of the bushland near Herons Creek and Kendall.
A coronial inquest into his disappearance, launched in March 2019, is ongoing.
“The NSW Police Force remains committed to finding William Tyrrell with the Homicide Squad’s Strike Force Rosann continuing to conduct investigations into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance,” Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said in a statement in June this year, which marked William’s 10th birthday.
“As our inquiries continue, we encourage anyone in the community with information – no matter how big or small – to come forward, so we may provide answers to his families.”
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