Former senior detective who headed the William Tyrrell case demands for a public review on the police investigation of the boy’s disappearance.
This month commemorates eight years since the 3-year-old disappeared from his foster grandmother’s yard in Kendall, NSW. He’s missing.
Gary Jubelin oversaw the strike force investigation into the missing child for nearly five years before resigning.
Three years later, the former murder detective is still involved in the case and has asked for an external probe, even if the results are terrible.
Since William vanished eight years ago, there has been much conjecture, rumour, and innuendo, Mr. Jubelin told Today on Wednesday.
A year ago, the Police Commissioner criticised the inquiry and the state minister stated there may be one.
Let’s conduct an external inquiry 12 months later into how the probe was handled.
Mr. Jubelin has no issue with an examination of how he handled the investigation when he was in charge and admits his calls might be double-edged.
William’s disappearance is more crucial.
Mr. Jubelin replied, ‘I might be dumb, but it’s crucial when a 3-year-old youngster vanishes.’
If I or we did anything wrong, let’s learn from it so it doesn’t happen again.
With the rumours and conjecture surrounding this probe, I couldn’t stay silent.
I was drawn into it when the inquiry I headed was criticised, and I believe it’s necessary to reassure the public that everything possible is being done to find out what happened to William.
His remarks came after he criticised cops for singling out William’s foster mother as a person of interest in his abduction.
A year-old search of the Kendall house where William was last seen and adjacent regions turned up nothing.
Mr Jubelin said he’s not critical of his colleagues, but NSW Police should be more transparent about the inquiry.
‘I’m still a cop at heart, and I realise people are working hard, but it has to be scrutinised,’ he added.
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Mr. Jubelin said the major emphasis should be on what happened to William after being asked why he and his former colleagues had differing perspectives.
‘Homicide investigations are subjective, so you consider various factors,’ he added.
I understand why you have different opinions. Let’s investigate what happened to William.
Last year’s hunt for William’s corpse turned up nothing new.
Mr Jubelin remains involved in William’s disappearance three years after leaving the Police.
‘I’d prefer to move away, but I promised William’s family I’d do all I could for him,’ he added.
William Tyrrell would be 11 if he were alive today.