William Tyrrell’s foster parents have launched an appeal against their sentences and convictions for intimidating a child who is not William. William’s foster mother and foster father were sentenced in March for intimidating another foster child in their custody. The court was told the 57-year-old foster father had sworn and shouted at the child, causing the child to cry while on the way to school.
The foster father could be heard in covert police recordings telling the child “every f**king day” and later to “move, f**king, move”. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. The 58-year-old foster mother was sentenced for kicking the child, hitting them with a wooden spoon and threatening to slap them during heated arguments.
She was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order, while her partner was ordered to serve a 12-month good behaviour bond. The child was not William, who hasn’t been seen since vanishing as a three-year-old in 2014 while at his foster grandmother’s home at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast. A lawyer for both foster parents appeared in Sydney Downing Centre District Court on Tuesday to lodge an appeal against their sentences and convictions.
The Crown prosecutor asked for a three-week adjournment to allow time to co-ordinate the appeal requests. Acting Judge Paul Conlon granted the request and noted the matter would be ready to be set down for an appeal hearing when it returned to court in.