TOUGH GOING: Denise and Bruce Morcombe heard testimonies from Sunbus passengers. Picture: Jono Searle Source: The Courier-Mail
BRUCE Morcombe can only imagine what happened to his son Daniel in the minutes after a Sunbus drove past on the afternoon of December 7, 2003.
But he is certain what would have happened had the bus stopped and picked him up.
In an emotional day of testimony in the committal hearing of a man charged with Daniel's murder, the Morcombes listened from the front row as a series of Sunbus passengers told of seeing a boy they believe was Daniel Morcombe try to wave down their driver.
The boy had been waiting for the bus to Maroochydore at an unofficial stop under the Kiel Mountain Rd overpass at about 1.30pm.
They told how they saw him wave as the bus continued on without him.
Behind the boy, the court heard from witnesses that there stood a man with dark hair and a dark goatee, leaning against a clay wall.
He looked "relaxed", with one leg resting on a ledge."We were coming along the road, he (the boy) was standing there waiting for the bus and obviously gave a hand signal and the bus kept going," witness Matthew Finlayson told the court, adding that the man made no move to walk towards the bus as it approached.
"He didn't look like he was coming towards the bus at all.
"Why was he there?"
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Terry Theuerkauf was sitting with his sister and a friend when they noticed the boy waving at the bus.
"I saw the young boy standing on the side of the road waving . . . to stop the bus and an older male leaning against the clay wall of the overpass," he said. "He was a pretty rough looking bloke.
"We were just all on the bus having a laugh and my sister said 'this boy just missed the bus - the bus didn't stop for him'."
Brett Peter Cowan, 43, has been charged with Daniel's murder.
He is yet to enter a plea but defence lawyer Tim Meehan had said outside court last week that his client will plead not guilty to all charges.
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Following yesterday's proceedings, Mr Morcombe said while it was distressing to hear the testimony of witnesses, it was important that many were providing "consistent" information.
"Clearly we relive perhaps the feeling, the heartache in Daniel, of waiting the best part of 45 minutes for a bus, and then finally one turns up and the damn thing doesn't stop," he said.
"And you could just imagine your heart sinking.
"And we're all standing here today wondering what the next minutes and hours presented to him - it's very unnerving."
He said while he believed his son would still be alive had the driver stopped, it could have meant someone else's child being targeted.
"Well, of course none of this would have happened," he said.
"Who knows, if it wasn't Daniel, maybe it (would have been) somebody else. We can't change what's happened."
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