Police to focus on swamp in Tyrell search
The focus of the search for missing three-year-old boy William Tyrell will on Wednesday turn to a swamp about two kilometres off a NSW country road.
Divers are to be sent to the area close to where police teams have been scouring bushland after a tip-off about the boy's disappearance.
Investigators earlier said they had confidence in the tip-off that led them to bushland in the Lake Innes Conservation Area on the state's mid north coast.
William was last seen wearing a Spider-Man costume and playing in his grandmother's front yard at Kendall, south of Port Macquarie, in September.
A large-scale search at the time failed to find any trace of the boy, and it is now thought he was abducted.
Detectives have said it was likely he was taken.
A police source told the ABC that officers were looking for the boy's body.
Houston-Mitchell Drive, known to locals as Ghost Road. Source: Google
On Monday, search crews operating on a tip-off received in recent weeks started combing an area about 20 kilometres from where William disappeared.
About 30 specialist police officers scoured the vicinity of Houston Mitchell Drive and Long Point trail.
Police discovered bones during their search on Monday but tests confirmed they were animal remains.
Ms Bligh said the community was "sad, empty, broken", but had rallied together.
"We lost our innocence when William went missing," she said.
"Our town is really a great little town, we stick together, we bond together.
"If anyone had have been at the initial search they would have seen just the locals coming together, so we don't finger point.
"If anything it's just made us become a stronger community."
Morning news break – March 4
