Person of interest in William Tyrell case screams alibi at reporter
Tony Jones, a person of interest in the disappearance of William Tyrell, has screamed his alibi on camera after being confronted by a reporter on A Current Affair.
Police have questioned Jones a number of times about William, who vanished from his foster grandmother’s house in Kendall, NSW, in 2014, when he was just three years old.
No one has been charged over the disappearance.
On A Current Affair tonight, a clip shows Jones becoming heated as reporter Steve Marshall asks him about his movements on the day William disappeared.
“Were you in Kendall that day?” Marshall asks him.
“Piss off idiot, I wasn’t even questioned on it ... Go away, I was not!” Jones replies.
“Where I was on the day he disappeared was with my next door neighbour, getting her hot water system, you got your answers? Look I answered your questions mate, go away,” he yells.
When Jones says he “arrived home at lunchtime drunk”, Marshall asks him how he’d be able to confirm his alibi if he was drunk.
“I just told you where I was, fool!” he yells back.
Jones lived about 20 minutes away from Kendall in a town called Wauchope when William vanished on September 12, 2014.
Jones was living with a relative Katrina at the time, who also appears on A Current Affair to speak about how they are now estranged. She says she had not heard Jones helping out a neighbour on the day of William’s disappearance.
A white car belonging to the Jones’ family has been previously seized by police for forensic examination.
But Jones denied using the Toyota car, claiming it was his ex-wife’s care and she never let him drive it.
Katrina says on the program that Jones use the car but “with her knowledge? Definitely no”.
It’s been almost four years since William’s disappearance. Police have followed a number of leads but have never charged anyone.
The NSW government has offered a $1 million reward for any information that will lead to the recovery of William.
Anybody with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.