Morcombe kidnapper to be revealed: witness

A jailed killer who lied to police about abducting Daniel Morcombe has told a court
the real kidnapper will reveal his identity this week.
P1, whose name has been suppressed, was the first of six persons of interest (POI)
to be called in the third week of an inquest into the teenager's disappearance from
a Sunshine Coast bus stop in December 2003.
The prisoner, serving a term for manslaughter, told Brisbane Coroners Court on
Monday that a fellow inmate at the Wolston Correctional Centre had confessed last
year to abducting Daniel.
P1 said the alleged jailhouse confessor - another POI in the case - will take the
stand on Thursday to tell the "chilling story about how he abducted, raped and
murdered 13-year-old Daniel".
"He turned around and said to me 'You know that second person (the police) are
looking for? You're looking at him'," P1 said.
He told the court he had since had 'countless conversations' with the inmate, who
had told him specific details about the abduction.
"Everything he's telling me he couldn't have gotten from the newspapers or the
media," he said.
P1 admitted in court that he had previously wrongly nominated other people as
Daniel's abductor - including a man he knew to be dead at the time - but said he was
telling the truth this time.
"I'm 100 per cent confident within myself that the person who did it is in the
Wolston Correctional Centre," P1 said.
"(He) did it."
P1 said he had advised the inmate to come clean when he fronted court.
"I said, 'If you're responsible for this, you need to go in there and give that
family closure'," P1 said.
"He said, 'Don't worry mate, it'll all end Thursday'."
P1 was the focus of a lengthy police investigation after confessing to being
involved in abducting Daniel and dumping his body in the Brisbane River.
He later retracted the confession, saying he had lied because he wanted to cause
trouble for police.
He expressed remorse for his actions on Monday, admitting he was a "two-bit liar".
"Look, I had no idea of the repercussions that the whole thing would cause," he said.
"I was dead-set against one copper, and I would have done anything and everything to
nail that copper, and what I did was I took fragments and pieces of information that
I had heard in the media or within the drug circle from in prison.
"I sat down and I thought about it and I just couldn't fit it all together, so what
I did was to make it more realistic, I coloured the picture."
P1 said he was shocked when police arranged for him to meet Daniel's father, Bruce
Morcombe, but said he didn't change his story, instead lying to Mr Morcombe for more
than an hour.
He continued to stand by his fabricated story until finally telling a Crime and
Misconduct hearing in 2007 that he had lied.
"I understand that I have caused considerable hurt and pain to the Morcombe family,
and impeded the investigation," he said.
"It was a lie and I'm sincerely sorry for that."
The inquest continues.