I said, 'Are we able to speak to your mother? Is she home?'
He said, 'No, mum moved out the Sunday before Christmas in 2008'.
I said, 'Are you able to tell us where your mother is at the moment'.
He said, 'No, I cannot'.
I said, 'Are we able to call you mother so we can speak to her'.
He said, 'No, I don't have the phone number for her'.
Senior Constable Ball said, 'How do we contact her?'
He said, 'I can't say'.
Senior Constable Ball said, 'All we need to do is make sure she is ok and then we can close the job off. We won't disclose her location to anyone'.
He said, 'I can't do that I made a promise'.
I said, 'Are you able to tell us whether you spoke to her last night, last week, last month?'
He said, 'Sorry I cannot'.
I said, 'All we need to do is make sure she's ok and that's it'.
He said, 'I was a missing person once and the Police never sighted me, they just came to the house, said I wasn't there and that was it'.
I said, 'Well that's not what we will be doing'.
[The appellant] seemed emotional talking to Police about the matter.
At one stage it appeared as though [the appellant] was tearing up whilst talking to me.
I said, 'What about if we give you our work phone number and you can pass that onto your mother?'
[The appellant] picked up and handed me what I believed was his mobile phone.
He said, 'Put the number in there and I will try'.
I keyed in our work mobile phone number and saved it under 'We' as [the appellant's] phone was hard to operate.
Whilst attempting to input our number I noted a contact in the phone under the heading 'mum'.
I noted the number for future reference should it be required.
I advised him that the number was located under 'we' and if he could pass that onto his mother (ts 166).