Bruce Morcombe speaks to the media outside Brisbane Magistrate's Court yesterday. Source: The Courier-Mail
FOR years they hoped their missing boy would walk through the door. Today, Daniel Morcombe will be taken home to the Sunshine Coast, leaving his parents Bruce and Denise Morcombe feeling like they have received "fresh news" of his fate.
The family that has earned the admiration of a nation was yesterday granted permission to receive Daniel's remains after developments in the committal hearing for the man accused of his murder.
"We started the week not even knowing if we'd be allowed in the court room. We've sat through four days of somewhat difficult evidence," Mr Morcombe told The Courier-Mail last night.
"We're just digesting this extremely late development (of being able to take home Daniel's remains). We're just focused on being together ... and we'll think about the funeral (today).
"It is relief, I suppose, that we worked so hard to get to this position but there is no joy in this room. We're all sitting here a little blank-faced thinking about how the next eight to 10 days will pan out.
"It is a little bit like having fresh news that your son's been killed.
FOLLOW ROLLING COVERAGE FROM YESTERDAY'S COURT PROCEEDINGS
"It's sad news that we're here and now we've got the process of organising a funeral, as families do when they lose a loved one.
"For the next week and a half we'll have one eye on the committal hearing and obviously a huge distraction in organising Daniel's funeral.
We haven't spoken about funeral arrangements yet ... I think we're all just shell-shocked."
The State Coroner will hand over Daniel's remains to a Sunshine Coast funeral home, where they will be stored until his parents make funeral arrangements.
Brett Peter Cowan, 43, has been charged with child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment, murder and interfering with a corpse.
It marks a frustrating few months for the Morcombes, who were privately dealing with legal bureaucrats, who, as late as yesterday, were disagreeing about who had the final say over whether Daniel's remains could be released.
Denise and Bruce Morcombe at court in Brisbane yesterday.
A Queensland Police Service detective yesterday told the Morcombes that they would finally get their boy's remains back.
The move was prompted when the State Coroner Michael Barnes made a snap decision to release the bones after Cowan signed a three-page document stating he did not require the remains for his defence.
A formal bid for Daniel's bones began in August when the Morcombes' lawyer Peter Boyce, of Butler McDermott Lawyers, applied to the Coroner for their release.
Mr Barnes then requested submissions from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cowan's lawyers and the QPS.
While the DPP declined to respond and the defence was at the time undecided, the QPS claimed the coroner had no power to rule on the family's application.
According to police, the remains were seized under a crime scene warrant and as criminal charges had been laid in connection with the death, the remains were theirs.
However, Mr Barnes believed he had the power to release them under the Coroners Act, but did not want to jeopardise a trial - or force the Morcombe family to resort to legal action in order to secure the release of Daniel's remains.
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