“Police will allege that after the shooting a group of men were seen to drive away from the location,” a police spokesperson said.
The woman was hauled before the secretive crime-fighting body to answer questions about the boy’s disappearance.
Outgoing police chief Mick Fuller has doubled down on criticism of the William Tyrrell investigation under Gary Jubelin,saying Mr Jubelin illegally recording a suspect is what got him removed from the case.
The fabric has been taken away for forensic testing as about 30 police operational support officers are replaced by a new team on Sunday morning.
Installed at the helm of the investigation into what happened to William Tyrrell two years ago,Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw has spent more than a decade in homicide and has built a reputation as a quiet achiever who gets on with things.
Specific new information led investigators to a five-metre patch of bushland. Police on Friday were pumping water from a nearby creek,despite inclement weather that threatens to halt the search.
The woman’s evidence is under new scrutiny as police investigate whether William fatally fell from a balcony on the Mid North Coast in 2014.
Investigators are working on the theory that William may have fallen to his death from a second-storey balcony,and have undertaken an intensive forensic search at the Mid-North Coast home.
Multiple police and legal sources have confirmed that the evidence gathered so far is insufficient to refer the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions,as investigators continue their search for William Tyrrell’s remains.
NSW Police have sought an apprehended violence order against the foster parents of William Tyrrell as a new search begins on the Mid North Coast.
Evidence about cars parked outside the home where William Tyrrell vanished and the recollections of a Kendall man who claimed to have seen him in a car being driven away was doubted by investigators.