In the video interview, in which he spoke about his addiction issues, Paul also addressed anyone with information about what happened to Noah, saying: “It’s never too late to do the honourable thing”.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the inquest, he explained that on the day of Noah’s disappearance when he found Noah’s rucksack, he was on bail and electronically tagged.<\/p>\n
He said he was not aware of Noah or that he was missing when he found the boy’s possessions.<\/p>\n
“I never met or even seen Noah,” he said.<\/p>\n
In an additional statement, he told the inquest about “untrue rumours” linking him to the wider case around the disappearance of the schoolboy.<\/p>\n
Paul said he and his family had been threatened.<\/p>\n
He also repeated an appeal to anyone who knew anything about the case.<\/p>\n
“I honestly feel that if anyone knows what happened to him, they should come forward.”<\/p>\n
He described how he is “upset about all the rumours” and stated that if he knew “all the trouble it could cause” he would never have touched the boy’s belongings.<\/p>\n
Paul interrupted proceedings late in the afternoon to request a break and is expected to return to the witness stand on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the video interview, in which he spoke about his addiction issues, Paul also addressed anyone with information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}