MOTIVATED: Denise and Bruce Morcombe speak to the media outside court yesterday. Picture: Liam Kidston Source: The Courier-Mail
AFTER years of police questioning, an "alibi witness" for Daniel Morcombe's accused killer remains no closer to shedding light on his movements.
Sandra Drummond yesterday admitted in court she had smoked cannabis with Brett Peter Cowan and, at times, sold him the illicit drug.
But she was unable to say if she saw Cowan on Sunday, December 7, 2003, the day he allegedly lured Daniel away from a bus stop.
"I didn't really know where I was. I still don't know where I was," Ms Drummond said under questioning from defence lawyer Tim Meehan.
Ms Drummond has lived at Beerwah in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 20 years and met Cowan, who lived nearby, when she bought fireworks from him.
They met regularly over a period of up to two years before Daniel's disappearance, Ms Drummond said.
Since officers first approached wanting "to talk to me about Brett", she had provided five statements to police between September 2006 and August 2011.
Mr Meehan told the court Cowan claimed to be at Ms Drummond's home around the time Daniel disappeared.
"She is seen as being an alibi witness of the accused," Mr Meehan said.
"The accused says that at the relevant time, being the disappearance of Master Morcombe, that he was relevantly at the address of this witness.
"Her initial statement is neither here nor there. She doesn't provide any evidence supporting or opposing that particular view."
Ms Drummond told the court she normally went to an RSL club on Sundays as one of her daughters worked there.
She "assumed" she was at the RSL on the day Daniel went missing and insisted she had told police this from the start.
She could not rule out seeing Cowan on the day as the visit may have been "more significant" to him.
The court was told Ms Drummond's RSL membership card was used on the afternoon of December 7, 2003, shortly after Daniel went missing.
Cowan, 43, is facing a Brisbane Magistrates Court committal hearing on charges of murder, child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.
Following Ms Drummond's appearance, Chief Magistrate Brendan Butler closed the hearing to the public to allow six police officers to give evidence in private.
The hearing will be reopened to the public for the evidence of two other police officers.
Outside court, Daniel's dad Bruce, with wife Denise by his side, said he was disappointed to miss evidence but was "fully motivated" to see through the court process.
"On the way here this morning we drove past the cemetery where Daniel was laid to rest. We drove past the abduction site. The blood's flowing on the way here," he said.
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