Litigation against William Tyrrell’s foster parents over real estate sale
- Tyrrell foster parents faced allegations over property sales
William Tyrrell’s former foster parents have gone to court over allegations that they manipulated the sale of a property they owned on Sydney’s Upper North Shore.
Police allege the couple placed a dummy bidder in December 2020 to raise the auction price of the Killara home.
They were each charged with unfairly obtaining financial advantage or causing harm through deception.
At a brief hearing in Parramatta local court on Friday, prosecutors said they would introduce a lesser statutory charge and dismiss the existing charges.
William Tyrrell’s foster parents are swamped by the media after appearing in court
Police are awaiting permission from the NSW Department of Fair Trading to file the new charges.
The couple’s lawyer told the court that an agreement was reached late Thursday evening that they would plead guilty to the new charges.
A next hearing date has been set for September 4.
Mystery surrounds the 2014 disappearance of William Tyrrell, who was three years old when he disappeared from a property owned by his grandmother, in Kendall on the NSW north coast.
Police have consistently searched for answers in the years since his disappearance, including a thorough search of Kendall’s home in December 2020.
In June, lawyers for the foster mother called on detectives to respond to reports being considered against her over William’s disappearance.
“The foster mother has always and insists she had nothing to do with William’s disappearance,” the lawyers said in a statement.
The woman, in her late 50s, was acquitted in 2022 of lying to the NSW Crime Commission about hitting another child with a wooden spoon.