The biological mother of William Tyrrell will soon be sentenced after pleading guilty to spitting and swearing at police.
Karlie Tyrrell, 29, was arrested in a Ryde shopping centre after security personnel were forced to contact police “to assist with a woman acting aggressively towards customers” on December 22 last year.
A NSW Police spokesperson told news.com.au Ms Tyrrell “allegedly repeatedly swore at the officers in the presence of two children” and then spat “on the face of one of the officers.”
She was taken to Ryde police station after the alleged incident where she was charged with assaulting an officer in the execution of their duty and using offensive language in, or near, a public place.
Ms Tyrrell appeared at Burwood Local Court on Monday morning and a guilty plea was accepted. She will be sentenced on Monday.
The charges follow a tumultuous few weeks for the missing toddler’s parents, with his birth father Brendan Collins arrested last week over a larceny offence.
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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 added that police have turned their attention to a group of just a few hundred persons of interest, narrowed down from a list of thousands.
William disappeared from his foster grandmother’s yard in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales in 2014.
“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 boy.
