Nearly four years after losing her son in one of Australia’s most high profile missing child cases, the biological mother of William Tyrrell has been charged with allegedly possessing a prohibited drug.
According to The Daily Mail, a NSW Police spokeswoman said police were speaking to Karlie Tyrrell at a unit in Westmead about 9.15pm on February 9 when officers allegedly found a “clear, resealable bag” of cannabis.
The 29-year-old has been charged and will face court later this month on the same day she is to be sentenced for separately spitting at a female police officer at a Sydney shopping centre.
The charge comes just days after Karlie sat down for her first TV interview due to air on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night.
“I felt like I was the worst mum in the world,” she tells reporter Melissa Doyle in an advertisement for the emotional new interview.
“Whoever has him needs a bullet,” she adds.
The brief snippet, which promises to reveal new and explosive facts regarding the case, also teases who she believes should be held accountable for the suspected abduction.
“They were responsible and they failed,” she says.
William, then three, disappeared from his foster grandmother’s yard in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales in 2014.
William disappeared from his foster grandmother’s yard in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, on the morning of September 12, 2014.
Speaking with 9 News, Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin of the NSW Police Homicide Squad recently said it was “highly likely” police had already come across the perpetrator of the crime.
Det. Jubelin said police have turned their attention to a group of just a few hundred persons of interest, narrowed down from a list of thousands.
WATCH: Last year, a bombshell court ruling revealed William was in foster care at the time of his disappearance. Post continues…
“The strongest likelihood is that we’ve already got the name of the person involved,” he said.
“I would be sweating.”
He later added: “Even if it is one person involved, I am sure that there’s people close to that person that have suspicions about that person. They’re the people that we’re interested in speaking to.”
An unprecedented award of $1 million has been offered by the NSW government for any information leading to the recovery of the missing toddler.
Anybody with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
