The search for a four-year-old boy at his now elderly mother’s Brisbane house has wound up after eight days, more than 50 years after he was last seen.
On Wednesday last week, Maureen Anne Enright, 76, was charged with the murder of Peter John Enright, who police say has not been seen since the 1960s.
Homicide detectives swooped on her home on Polaris St, Inala, to look for the child’s body, using special ground-penetrating radar equipment to search underneath the property and combing through her yard.
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On Friday, police said forensic officers had finished examining areas of interest and no skeletal remains had been uncovered.
“As the matter is before court no further information is available at this time,†police said.
“Police continue to encourage anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.â€
Police previously said they had obtained records of Peter’s birth and trawled adoption records but found no evidence of him being adopted. They also said he was never reported missing.
It is understood a family member approached police in August with information about the boy.
The frail grandmother and mother of 11 briefly appeared in Richlands Magistrates Court last week before her case was adjourned to December 11.
