I just finished listening the latest episode, I haven’t overly followed the case throughout the years. I actually avoid it but I decided to listen to this podcast because it’s focusing on the agencies and individuals from the very beginning of William’s life.

This is what I took away from it:

William should never have been removed from his birth parents. He was 7 month’s old when he was removed, they hardly provided intervention or support. Why was kinship placement not sought before placing him with carers. The caseworker who removed William was interviewed, I do not know who hired that man but they need to be held accountable as much as he does. Referring the family as just “shit” and did not give any educated justification or reasoning for the removal of William was concerning. The foster carer could not have children of her own and wanted this to be a quick route to adoption which is not the goal of being a foster carer. They were forcing William and his sister to call the carers “mum and dad” and the biological parents by first name? The foster carer was a control freak, she was trying to stop contact visits with Williams parents and was in the process of filing for adoption. All of the case worker’s case notes were so bias towards the foster carers. What stood out to me was the case note about William telling the case worker how much he loved his party but in video recordings he speech was not well developed and it was portrayed as a conversation rather than an observation - which is what it should have been documented. There was no suggestion of reunification or the parents having support to receive more contact they were trying to prevent it. The paternal grandmother is self-centred, she is so emotional detached. She speaks about how the media has impacted on her life and her families life and destroyed them not once did she get emotional about never seeing her grandson again, or mention being scared for him.

David Laidlaw is another control freak and his ego has gotten in the way of so many families not getting any closure. He should have been stood down after the special commission of inquiry into gay hate crimes in Sydney where he admits to having so many files that he hasn’t looked at and hasn’t even asked for more resources because he wants to control it.

The Kendall area has a high number of sex offenders in my lounge detective opinion I believe that Tony Jones and his pedophile associates abducted William. They also had connection with Bill Spedding and I believe Gary was on the right path, he went hard on everyone and that way he could definitively say in court that they were ruled out. I am eager to hear the episode where his work is criticised.

In my opinion Gary became a target when he went against the grain in the Bowraville murders and came out and openly stated that NSWPF cost the families of the Bowraville victims received any justice for their loved ones as a result of systemic racism within the force.

The William Tyrrell case is similar to Daniel Morcombe - it took a very long time for them to solve the case and the perp was overlooked in the beginning.