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“Just let him come home. Please,” William Tyrrell’s biological mother begs in new interview

“I felt like I was the worst mum in the world”
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William Tyrrell’s biological mother, Karlie Ann Erlington Tyrrell, 29 is convinced her son is still alive and made an emotional plea to the people who took her son during an interview with Seven’s Sunday Night.

“I want my kids to be together. They’re meant to be together, like brother and sister,” she reporter Melissa Doyle.

“He hasn’t even met his little brother yet. It’s not fair. This isn’t fair.”

“I felt like I was the worst mum in the world,” she said.

William has three biological brothers, one who he hasn’t had the chance to meet.

Her three-year-old child, William, disappeared from his foster grandmother’s yard in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, on the morning of September 12, 2014.

William was just three when he disappeared in 2014, he would be turning 7 in June.

“Don’t hurt him,” she said in a public plea during the interview, breaking down in tears, “just let him come home. Please.”

Karlie remains positive her son is still alive.

“Where else could he be? He’s not in the bush,” she said. “I feel like whoever has him needs a bullet.”

William disappeared from his foster grandmother’s yard in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales in 2014.

The interview also revealed who Karlie believes should be held accountable for the suspected abduction.

“I don’t want to blame the carers, but they were responsible for looking after him and they failed,” Karlie told Mel Doyle.

“She went inside and made a cup of tea. If that’s the case, okay, that’s an accident, and that’s unfortunate.

“But it doesn’t make any sense to me. Kids don’t just go missing.”

Karlie Tyrrell blamed her panic attacks for spitting at a police officer during an incident at a suburban Sydney shopping centre last month.

The interview has aired just two months after the birth mother of William Tyrrell blamed mental health issues for spitting at a police officer during an incident at a Sydney shopping centre.

The 29-year-old faced Burwood Local Court in late January after entering a guilty plea earlier in the month.

She was due to be sentenced on one charge of assaulting an officer and using offensive language in a public place, but the case was adjourned and a pre-sentence report ordered.

Ms Tyrrell, who has a long criminal history, was arrested in a Ryde shopping centre after security personnel were forced to contact police “to assist with a woman acting aggressively towards customers” on December 22 last year.

According to police facts, she became agitated when an officer asked one child in her company about marks on his legs. She then spat on a second officer’s right eyebrow and cheek after shouting: “Ryde coppers lost my son you c**ts.”

In a handwritten note tendered on Monday, the mother blamed her panic attacks for the assault.

“I recently found out I suffer from panic attacks which played a major part into my behaviour but I’m not making any excuses,” she wrote.

Ms Tyrrell will learn her fate on March 19 when sentencing proceedings continue.

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