Former investigator's candid William Tyrrell admission
Gary Jubelin, the former lead investigator of the William Tyrrell case, has admitted that he is still obsessed with the toddler's disappearance a decade after the child went missing.
Jubelin was removed from the case after illegally recording a then-suspect Paul Savage in 2017 and 2018. He quit the force in 2019 and was prosecuted and convicted and lost his subsequent appeal.
He recently spoke out on Stellar magazine's podcast, Something To Talk About, and revealed that he cannot let the case go, despite his removal from the official investigation.
"I am still passionate about the William Tyrrell matter. I can't let it go," he said.
"There was criticism of things I did. I still stand by what I did. The courts have criticised me.
"I've got to accept the findings of the court. But I also believe the courts are only as good as the information that's been provided to them."
His comments come after an inquest examined the three-year-old's disappearance from his foster grandmother's home at Kendall, NSW in September 2014.
Jubelin also called out the unconfirmed police theory that they believed William's foster mother was involved in the three-year-old's disappearance.
"When I was running the investigation, I had another look at the family, and there was a strike force to explore some aspects of it, very vigorously had a look at the family again, overt and covert investigative techniques.
"I came away from that very confident that the foster mother and foster father had no involvement in William's disappearance.
"The foster mother gave evidence in support of me at my hearing and was also critical of senior police.
"Then she becomes a person of interest after she criticised senior police, and that's been leaked to the media.
"Something about this does not feel right."
He added: "I can't let it go, I won't let it go, and it's not me losing perspective, and it's not me trying to justify my position. I think we - and I'm still including myself as a police officer in this term - should be judged on the way that investigation was handled.
"I don't know how the public could possibly have confidence in what's going on.
"There was a coronial inquest, and we've heard the commissioner for police say there's only one suspect, pointing the finger at the foster mother, and there is no evidence to support that.
"You can't make allegations like that."
He also said that he believed the public has a right to be critical of the investigation.
"In terms of closure, I think there really needs to be some line of inquiry over what's happened with that investigation.
"I'm not seeing things come out at the inquest that I thought were relevant.
"A young child has disappeared, and that shouldn't get lost in all the politics and infighting. We all should be working in the same direction to bring some closure."
Jubelin admitted that his removal from the Tyrrell investigation "hurt me more than losing my career."
"I'd made the commitment to William Tyrrell's family, foster and biological, I'd do whatever was humanly possible."
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