You can listen to the Front on your smart sneaker every morning to hear the latest episode. Just say play the news from The Australian. From the Australian, I'm Claire Harvey a special bonus episode off the Front for you today. New South Wales police have responded swiftly to a fresh revelation in our investigation into the disappearance of mother of
two Bromwyn Winfield. On Thursday night, The Australian published revelations from Headley Thomas that a new eyewitness claims to have seen Bromwan's husband John driving with something that looked like a body in the back of his car around the time of her nineteen ninety three disappearance. In today's episode, what the police are saying and how Bromwin's family and our audience is responding to this big news.
What's wrong with him?
That's the stunned emotional reaction of Andy Reid, the brother of Bromwin Winfield, to startling new evidence presented in the Australians investigation into this thirty one year old mystery.
This poor lady to go the to have to live with this, to go to the police station twice in ninety three, and they discount, and they go and take a pop statement.
After three decades of frustration, sorrow and anger, Andy and his wife Michelle have lots of questions, and so do our listeners. What was in the back of John Winfield's car on a late night drive in May nineteen ninety three after the disappearance of his wife, About other witness accounts of the car's movements that night, What have police been doing? And why hasn't this cold case been solved?
Those are just some of the big questions raised by our revelation thanks to Headley Thomas's podcast Bromwin, of fresh eyewitness allegations that have never formed part of a police brief and have never been put before a court. Today, we're going to dive in answering some of your questions a little later in this episode, but first there's been a rush of listeners to episode seven, released on Thursday evening.
This is the most important episode in the Bromwin podcast series so far. It is going to disclose a major new development in this investigation into Bromwin's disappearance. It is so serious it should prompt Senior Detective Nigel Larren or another member of the Unsolved Homicide Unit in Sydney to beat a path to the door of a woman from
whom you'll hear shortly. Her name is Judy Singh. She is sixty nine years old, a Korean nurse who retired a few years ago, and she now lives with her daughter's family in northern New South Wales.
And among those listeners and the subscribers reading and watching us stories and video on the Australian dot com dot
a U are the New South Wales Police. Just hours after the stories broke, police reached out to our National Crime correspondent David Murray indicating they wanted to speak to eyewitness Judy Singh directly, and then New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner and Commander of State Crime Command, Michael Fitzgerald emailed Headley Thomas requesting Judy Sing's contact details, which Headley passed on. Judy sing who is sixty nine, had already told us she is willing to do anything she can
to assist police. Headley passed on her contact details on Thursday night. So what have police been doing all these years? Back in nineteen ninety three when Bromwin first disappeared, it seems according to Headley's reporting, to have been a lackluster and low energy investigation. John Winfield told police back then, Bromwin took a phone call, then a mysterious car pulled up in the driveway and she got in, never to
be seen again. Nearly a decade later, a local detective took another look at the case, speaking to witnesses and looking for new leads. A police brief went to the coroner, and after a hearing, Deputy State Coroner Karl Milvanovitch found Bromwyn was dead and recommended that a known person, John Winfield, should be charged with her alleged murder, but the then Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowtery Casey, declined to take a prosecution forward, telling the family there was no evidence
John Winfield had anything to do with Bromwin's death. John Winfield has always denied any wrongdoing and has never been charged. Here's what Judy Singh told The Australian her words from episode seven of Bromwyn.
And This night. I was sitting up and I saw the car pull out at the end of the street
and the light was on in the car. There's very squeaky brakes on that car, and he drove very slowly along the street, but he had left the car light on and I could see directly into the car, and I had a small lantern on the balcony rail and he kind of looked up this night and I saw this what looked to be like a mummy in the back of the car, and I thought, what are you going late at night with something that looked like I
just called it a mummy. And I've said this to my son so many times about this, and I thought, well, even if he was taking out the longings, you wouldn't make it look like a body, do you know?
I mean?
Coming up, we address some of our listeners questions about this big twist. If you have any information about Bromwyn Winfield's disappearance, email Headley Thomas at Bromwyn at Beaustralian dot com dot au. Naturally, the revelations made by Judy singing episode seven of the podcast have raised more questions about Bromwyn Winfield's fate. We wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of the points raised by our subscribers. In
the podcast's Facebook group. You can find it and join the conversation by searching Facebook for Bromwyn Podcast official discussion group. The Winfield family's nineteen eighty seven Ford Falcon XF sadan is integral to Judy's account. Hadi Fullard diferenced another notorious Australian cold case which was solved in twenty sixteen, the Claremont serial killings. In that case, forensic evidence was discovered in a car owned by the killer almost a decade after the crime.
The long wait for justice for the families of Jane Rimmer and Kira Glennon is over, with Claremont killer Bradley Robert Edwards sentenced to life in prison.
Haiti asked if the nineteen eighty seven Falcon sedan is still owned by John Winfield or if its location is known. The short answer is no. The initial police investigation in the immediate aftermath of Bromwin's disappearance was lacking, so we do know a thorough forensic examination of the vehicle was never done. We don't yet know how the new South Wales police investigation will progress, but it's possible they'll attempt
to track down the Ford Falcon for testing. Nicolin Hancock clocked a discrepancy between John Winfield's own account of that night and what Judy and others like next door neighbor Murray Nolan remember. According to a report written by an unnamed detective senior constable in July of nineteen ninety three, almost two months after Bromwin was last seen, John Winfield said he traveled to Sydney for work on June twenty
six and returned to Lennox Head on July eleven. That report, which was based largely on John's version of events, has mostly been debunked by alternate witness testimony and other contemporaneous evidence. We know from a statement given by John's eldest daughter, Jody in nineteen ninety eight, that John Winfield flew back to Balliner from Sydney on the afternoon of Sunday, May sixteenth. Jody's words are being read by a voice actor.
I told Dad, and he made arrangements to fly to Baliner the following day. I felt that I was out of the situation then when Dad was going back home to sort it out, so I left it to him. The following afternoon, Sunday May sixteenth, nineteen ninety three, I drove Dad to the Sydney airport so that he could catch the plane to Ballina.
A handful of other group members queried how Judy Sing's account fits into the timeline of events from May sixteen, nineteen ninety three. Here's a quick recap. Bromwin returned to the home at sixty Sandstone Crescent on the afternoon of Friday, May fourteen. She called a locksmith to get back into the house because the locks had been changed while she and her girls were living at the townhouse in Byron Street.
After hearing from Jody that Bromwin had moved back to the house, John Winfield returned to Lennox Head on the afternoon of May sixteen, that was a Sunday. He swung by the Ballener Police station, then collected one of Jody's friends, twenty two year old Becky Maguire, who accompanied him to Sandstone Crescent. In her police statement, Becky said John collected a couple of suits cases from the house and then drove her home. Becky's words are being read by a voice actor.
John must have had a set of keys to the car, because we then got into the car and he drove me home. John didn't go inside the house at all while I was in the house with him. While we were driving back to my house. John thanked me for coming with him and told me he was sorry for getting me involved.
Later that night, around ten forty pm, Bromwin and John's next door neighbor, Murray Nolan, was watching a movie at home when he heard the Windfields Ford Falcon exit the driveway. Here's how he described it in episode six of Bromwyn.
Because John was back there.
Lay yeah, the car backed out, put no lights on, bottom down on the road, sug a big groove in the road and.
Arrivaled down the hill, down the bottom the hill.
You're down here with no lights on.
Turn the lights on, start the engine and go around.
The other way.
When he got to Sydney, John showed Bromwyn's sister in law, Michelle Reid, a receipt that showed he'd bought fuel at a petrol station in Lennox Head at eleven six pm. Judy Singh doesn't know exactly what time she saw John Winfield drive past her home with what she believes was Bromwin's body in the backseat of the car, but one
listener has raised an intriguing theory. Karen mastro Battista asks what if John drove the car down the road with Bromwin in the back and the interior light on, and realized this was a problem when he looked up and Jude saw him. So went somewhere quiet and put her body in the boot and decided to drive her down to Sydney with the girls. Then went home and picked up the girls and had to go down the driveway quietly as he knew he had her body in the boot.
John didn't go straight to Andy's place. He went to Jody's mum's. No one checked the boot there. Karen goes on he was then gone five hours. Could he have been disposing her body?
Then?
This is just so awful. I feel quite ill, but I am so glad the truth is coming out. That's the end of Karen's Facebook post. Of course, John Winfield denies any wrongdoing. This story is moving fast. For all the latest updates, visit the Australian dot Com dot a you and join us subscribers