A person who once lived at a sawmill which was searched a fortnight ago is a person of interest in the 2014 disappearance of William Tyrrell and will give evidence at his inquest next year.
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Frank Abbott is expected to testify at the NSW inquest into the suspected abduction of three-year-old William when it resumes in March 2020, a source has told AAP.
Abbott was living in a caravan on a sawmill near Kendall when the toddler disappeared five years ago, Ten News reported on Wednesday.
William went missing from his foster grandmother's home in Kendall on NSW's mid north coast about 10.15am on September 12 in 2014.
Police, sniffer dogs and SES personnel searched the sawmill on Herons Creek Road two weeks ago as the inquest was sitting in Taree.
Heavy machinery was used to move logs during the search with police tight-lipped at the time as to why they were interested in the property.
No one has ever been charged in relation to William's disappearance.
Hundreds of people have been dubbed "persons of interest" during the investigation and a case detective admitted during the inquest there's "a very low standard to meet in order to become a person of interest".
Counsel assisting the coroner Gerard Craddock SC in early August stressed that any suggestion those called to give evidence were suspects was "simply wrong".
"This is an inquest and not a criminal trial," he said.
Australian Associated Press
