Explosive new documents from the William Tyrrell case have shed new light on the toddler’s troubled final days with his foster family, his violent behaviour and a ‘distressing’ accident before he vanished.
Exclusively obtained by Daily Mail Australia, the interviews with William’s foster family reveal troubling details about the three-year-old’s short life.
They include an accident where William fell off a stool and couldn’t get up, how he was made to change his own dirty nappy on the day he vanished and queries about the foster father mysteriously deleting six weeks of texts with his wife.
William’s foster mother – who is currently facing assault and stalking charges of a child who isn’t William – admitted that initially William ‘had personal issues …. particularly towards me’.
‘We had to deal (with) things such as William hitting me, biting me and him being basically furious’ with another child in the foster parents’ house.
The foster mother, who said the other child would ‘hide under the table and not come out, throw tantrums’ blamed William’s violent and ‘very erratic’ behaviour on his birth parents, who still had access visits.
‘The initial period when William first started living with (us) was very difficult. William had … disrupted attachment issues back to his birth parents.
(William was) very unsettled, particularly the time immediately following contact with (his) birth parents. The unsettled behaviour after visits would last months.’
This was despite, as the foster father revealed in a police interview, that immediately before taking in William they had wanted to ‘help a family’ and then ‘there was a scenario that came up and the Department even said “you’d be perfect for”.’
‘It all fitted into place, I mean the ink wasn’t even on the paper. It’s like going from zero to hero.
‘It was very, very tough but we managed it .. and when I met William, you know, it was like he was mine.
‘I was his world, he was mine.’
But Daily Mail Australia can reveal for the first time the contents of the foster father’s first police interview, conducted just two days after the toddler vanished, in which he admits a ‘distressing’ incident.
William was a ‘non-stop’ child and the foster father told detectives at Port Macquarie police station on September 14, 2014 about a recent incident at home on Sydney’s North Shore.
‘Only in the last week or so he was, you know when you’ve got the little stools that they stand on.
‘So he was sitting next to one or on one in the kitchen in our place. And he’d somehow managed to sit awkwardly and fell back.
‘But he couldn’t get back up, which is something that has distressed me a bit.
‘If he’s fallen and he’s fallen backwards, that seemed to indicate to me that he had a problem with getting back up.
You’ve got the stool like that. And he was lying over it so it, it’s quite and awkward thing.
‘And I think for a boy that size and age would find that a little bit awkward… I mean if eventually I wasn’t there he probably would have got himself out of it by just rolling.
‘But they don’t think about those sorts of things. They think oh, I’m in a position I can’t get out of – and daddy, daddy’s here and daddy, daddy.
‘So you know you help them up and he’s all fine.’