Police to search bushland for William Tyrell's remains
Police are searching dense bushland on the Mid North Coast of NSW for missing toddler William Tyrell.
Officers are looking in the vicinity of Houston Mitchell Drive and Long Point Road at Bonny Hills, close to where the three-year-old boy vanished more than five months ago.
New information from the public sparked the latest search by the Homicide Squad, which is also using officers from the Riot Squad, Dog Unit and Water Police.
"The search will take a number of days," Detective Superintendent Michael Willing told reporters in Sydney on Monday.
"This will not be the last search that we conduct."
Det Supt Willing declined to go into specific details about the search because he didn't want to compromise the operation.
"At this point it'll be a search by hand, a line search.
"The information is only general in nature - we are searching, looking for anything, any evidence," he said.
About 30 officers headed into the dense bushland just after 9am.
It follows a January raid on three properties linked to Bonny Hills washing machine repairman William Spedding, although investigators insist he is not a suspect.
Police seized a mattress, vehicles and a computer.
On Sunday, NSW Crime Stoppers appealed to 26 countries to help find William who was wearing a Spiderman costume when he disappeared from his grandmother's yard in Kendall, near Port Macquarie on September 12.
Two weeks ago investigators announced a plan to speak to anyone who came within a kilometre of the home between 10am and 11am on the day he disappeared.
He was wearing a spider-man costume at the time.
