Seenan told the inquest several times that she did not tell police that Noah had hit his head in the fall.
“I didn’t say he had a head injury.
“I don’t know if he hit his head… he had a helmet on.”
She was asked about a police theory that Noah may have sustained a head injury. She said she had heard that at the time and was “a bit miffed” because she did not know if that was based on her evidence.
“I wasn’t sure if it was totally my evidence or if someone saw something I had missed,” she said.
But she repeated that she did not see Noah hit his head.
Seenan’s son Jaydn was in the car with her and gave evidence to the inquest consistent with his mother’s.
Beryl Smith also gave evidence to the inquest.
She told the jury that on the Sunday evening Noah disappeared, she was sitting in her living room in Northwood Crescent when she saw a boy cycle past her window.
He was “fiddling” with the straps of his cycling helmet, she said.
Later, when she left her home to go to church she saw the helmet lying by a lamppost outside her home and realised he had taken the helmet off and discarded it in the street, where it stayed for several days.
She said she only saw Noah for a matter of seconds.