Detectives investigating the disappearance of William Tyrrell have asked prosecutors to suspend their inquiry into the missing toddler’s former foster mother.
Police sensationally recommended prosecutor’s charge the 58-year-old last year, alleging the three-year-old fell from a balcony and the death was covered up.
A brief of evidence was given to the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in August for advice on the strength of the case and whether conviction was possible.
But in a statement, the DPP said police had since the office to “suspend its consideration” until after the next set of hearings resume in November of this year.
Prosecutors were initially set to decide this year whether there was enough evidence, but made no decision before the inquest was scheduled to resume in March.
William was just three-years-old vanished from the front yard of his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall on NSW’s Mid North Coast in September 2014.
No one has ever been charged over the disappearance which has since become one of the largest ever missing persons investigations in the history of NSW.
His former foster mother, who cannot be identified, became the focus of new police searches in late 2020 but has denied any involvement in the disappearance.