Detectives searching for the missing three-year-old,who would now be 12,have recommended prosecutors charge his foster mother over allegedly covering up his death.
Bill Spedding was harassed and ostracised after police laid historical sex charges against him during the William Tyrrell case. On Thursday,a court found the prosecution was malicious.
Spedding sued the State of NSW arguing he was charged with historical sex offences to put pressure on him amid the investigation into William Tyrrell’s disappearance.
William’s foster mother was cleared of lying to the Crime Commission,the latest in a series of developments in the nation’s most high-profile missing persons case.
The woman was hauled before the secretive crime-fighting body to answer questions about the boy’s disappearance.
Detectives had a stark message for William Tyrrell’s foster mother. Questioned in a Sydney court about the conversation,they denied that they were deliberately lying.
William Tyrrell should be spending today celebrating his 11th birthday.
The former homicide detective told a court he did not threaten to “ruin” Bill Spedding in an unrecorded interview at Port Macquarie police station in 2015.
Bill Spedding,who was once a suspect in William Tyrrell’s disappearance,is suing the state for malicious prosecution after he was acquitted of historical sex offences.
The former detective allegedly told Bill Spedding,who he suspected of abducting William Tyrrell,“I will ruin you”. Now Spedding is suing the state after he was acquitted of unrelated historical sexual assault claims.
Spedding,once a person of interest in the William Tyrrell investigation,was charged in 2015 with sex offences police had declined to pursue in 1987.