 Breakfast. Poc o wa r miraculous ndiahi A wan pract dyna ndiai kono, stars to pa wu tu ma tick £0, yw gmr gwsta bi ka Americans We have to say that each link in the chain from the police, from the SES and a whole stack of ordinary Australians that have chipped in, obviously the media have all contributed to getting us where we are today, which very sadly, we had the confirmation that Daniel's remains are indeed at Glasshouse Mountains and that's a monumental step in the family's life We are also a monumental step in the investigation process to some degree are quite traumatized by Danniel's loss in the findings but at the same time we are hoping that it is the first step in the healing process and we can move forward from here and recover. …and recover. Yeah, truly we wrestle with finding the appropriate word. And closure's one that Denise and myself and the family have never been enormously comfortable with. I've often sort of grappled with what is the right word. You know, are we grieving, but what is grief, you know? I, to some degree, just put it as relief. You know, we've worked incredibly hard to find Daniel and to eventually have confirmation, forensically, that, you know, that skeletal remains. Those bones are Daniel's. You know, it's a place you don't want to be, but at the same time, it is relief that perhaps we're entering the very final chapter. We will bring him home. It's going to take a little while, but we said we'd never give up and we proved it because of everyone. No, we didn't think so. You know, the family was resigned to the fact that, you know, two significant finds of shoes, which we all appreciate still needs to be forensically tested, but, you know, the same brand, similar size, would suggest that that's pretty likely and without any shadow of doubt, human bones in that area all bring it very close to home and we're just new in our heart that it would be miraculous if it was not Daniel as against the reality that it was. Is continuing the search irrelevant to you now somewhat now that you've found this? Well, all of Daniel's remains have to be found. Then we can start planning a funeral. About eight years to think about it. No, we haven't. It was very difficult. You know, it's something like waiting for the sledgehammer to hit you, but when it does come, it's still a shock and certainly the Police Commissioner appreciated the difficulty and enormity of that and the distressing nature of that and he was very gracious to give us a number of moments and a number of phone calls to perhaps compose ourselves and assess the situation and then throughout the morning, obviously, there was further communication as media releases and press conferences were organised and, of course, our very brief media statement. Reasonably well, I suppose. At the end of the day, it's a very difficult role that they play. It is their brother that has been murdered and I don't think any of us would appreciate how moving that would be, but they do their best and one thing that we're really proud of, Denise and myself, is we're a tight-knit family and we spent time together yesterday and we'll spend time again tonight together as a family unit and we'll just make sure we recover from this and move on. How will you take it? A funeral is obviously something that's in the back of our mind, but truly the progression of events is to continue the search to make sure that that area is thoroughly examined and any other remains are extracted and forensically tested and obviously we don't want to do this two or three times. Daniel will have a single funeral as he deserves in the most intact form as we can find. I think we'll just have for one but we haven't decided what yet. You mentioned boys earlier, last Tuesday you took them out there. Obviously that was quite an emotional journey for you out at the search site. The boys faces was heartbreaking really. They just stood there and just stared. You could just see the expressions on their faces. I think it was reality setting in that no longer was their boy missing. The reality was their boy was now murdered and that is a massive step for anyone to comprehend and the young men that have normal emotions and they were trying to deal with that as best they could but again we were the tight-knit group and we wanted to do that as a family of four and we did it as difficult as it was so we felt it was a step in the right direction. We have no control over what will be found. We have no doubt that the police are doing a terrific job out there. Their efforts are underlined constantly that they will continue the search for as long as it takes in whatever conditions are dealt up and we all appreciate that. Sadly we've suffered a week of wet weather but as soon as it's reasonably fine and conditions permit they'll be back out there and look if it's three weeks, three months or six months nothing will stop the police exhaustively searching that area and we just wait for the professionals to do the job. Will the day for Daniel be safe? Absolutely. The foundation will continue. It's one of the reasons we get up each day is to make a difference in other kids' lives to make sure that they're as safe as possible and if we can use Daniel's real case to better other kids' safety we'll continue to do that and certainly next week with Child Protection Week Denise and I as part of the foundation are planning a trip to Cairns where we're visiting many thousands of kids along the way and visiting about 20 schools up and down the Queensland coast. No, we don't focus on anger. We don't focus on the court case or the person that's been charged. Our focus has always been on finding Daniel and really that has never changed from the 7th of December 2003. The number one priority for our family was to find Daniel and with a lot of good people doing a lot of hard yards in the mard and many fruitless searches I might add over many, many years. We have confirmation they've found Daniel and no doubt that search area will be combed through extensively as possible and with any luck we'll find more. Is it great though today? Not a lot to celebrate? Look, you reach a point that birthdays don't mean an awful lot but certainly today is the 8th birthday that I'll have without Daniel and this Sunday is the 8th Father's Day we'll have without Daniel. They're not lost on the family and they're certainly not lost on me. I think as I mentioned yesterday there's always been two concurrent aspects to this matter. The first was obviously to see if we had sufficient evidence to institute criminal charges and that's occurred and as I mentioned yesterday it's important to recognise that the person charges entitled for presumption of innocence in the matters now before the courts so we're not able to discuss that but the equally important aspect was always to find Daniel and that has now occurred and of course that's a sad outcome but at least now we know and we know where Daniel's final resting place is and I've given a commitment to Bruce and all of my police colleagues share this commitment and that is that we will search that area with absolute thoroughness and completeness and we will not leave that area until we are satisfied that there is nothing more left to be found. What does the Bruce to the investigation and if that's the criminal charges and remains to have been found there is a greater chance of justice being done. I will let the court systems do that and we'll just focus on Daniel and Daniel at this stage. Denise, can you tell us about your reaction when you heard the news from the Police Commissioner? Probably none of course. To sort of cope with this as a family in the next few days. To see with Bruce tonight for his birthday and just come and yacht us tomorrow and get ready for a trip next week and just take one day with Tom. I understand you're still looking for people to come forward with information for the investigation? Yes, we are. We're asking if anyone has any information at all and even if they're in doubt as to whether that information could be useful for us to please contact us to bring crime stoppers on 1-800-333-000 we will be grateful for the call. It matters not if the information has no bearing on it at all but we would just encourage anyone who may have any information to contact us. Is there a hard call tonight? Well, it's always difficult for any police officer to pass on such a message but it does at least bring the answer to something that's for Bruce and Denise has been an 80-year journey almost, almost 80 years. So in that sense it was, I guess, a positive thing in a way to be able to bring them the answer to the question they've been seeking for so long. Not the answer any of us would have wanted of course or ever wanted but I think, you know, that what Bruce said earlier was absolutely correct in the sense that at the scene whilst we couldn't say so we, that's as in the police were very confident prior to the DNA examination that we had actually found Daniel needed to confirm that and the DNA analysis is positive confirmation of that. Do you admire their courage and their character? Absolutely and thank you for asking that question. Like many others I am enormously indebted but in admiration of their courage, their character, their resilience, their determination and that's not just something that's lasted for weeks gone on for years and years and years and I'm also a great admirer of the way they have turned this tragedy through the work of the Daniel Morecom Foundation into a real positive for the broader Queensland and Australian community so I feel quite proud and privileged to be associated with the press and to me so I'm grateful for that, for their support for us. A number of journalists have raised that possibility with us and truly we haven't given it any firm consideration at all. We appreciate that that may well still be four or five or even six months away depending on where the conditions are we don't need to make hasty decision nothing's going to change in the next month or two and seriously probably the first option that may present itself is the 7th of December just being a significant day being the eight year milestone but you know if if the search is continuing or forensic tests are still required beyond that date well it just rolls into 2012 and you live with that. The day for Daniel is a day of action as we term it it's not a memorial day for Daniel it's a day where we reflect on Daniel's loss and turn that into a positive and identify that our children are potentially vulnerable to predators but we need to appreciate that and ensure that our kids are trained with sufficient skills no matter what age to identify danger, trust their instincts remove themselves from their danger and to tell a trusted adult a police officer or teacher their parents their very important steps and very simple ones that all kids should learn. Not appropriate to comment that relates to the evidence of the courts so it will be up to the court ultimately to determine the strength of any evidence presented to it. No, I'm sorry nothing beyond what Deputy Commissioner of A&E said yesterday that the car has indeed been seized and that vehicle is part of the investigation but it's not appropriate for us to go beyond that at this point in time. As I've indicated a couple of times recently I'm enormously grateful to a whole obviously Bruce Indonesia and the Morgan family and those associated with the foundation and the work they've done I'm grateful to the community for their support we have had thousands and thousands and thousands of pieces of information which we were grateful for and all of that's important I'm very grateful to organisations like Crime Stoppers who we work in partnership with very grateful to the media because what you have all done is keep this in the public's mind for the next 10 years and that was a critical aspect too and obviously I'm grateful to my own people who've been involved in this investigation and many of them have been involved in this for a long long time so there's a lot to be thankful for but having said that there's still much to be done and it's important to recognise that the charges that matter in terms of the charges before the courts and as I mentioned earlier and it's not appropriate to comment on the case of the courts that where that matter will be determined I'm sorry, it's a bit hard to hear just over here, how long do I see Deputy Commissioner Ross Barnett said yesterday as long as it takes and that's the reality I would hope that if we have fine weather that we will conclude it at the outside within three months because I think what we've been able to do now is create a more defined search area given what's been found today but my hope would be now longer than three months but it has to be completely exhaustively thorough and we're committed to doing that Bruce and Denise, you say you've felt a connection with Daniel a couple of times you've been out to the search site now that you have that knowledge that those crimes are Daniels do you feel a connection to him now having that knowledge One of that side is no doubt as we all identify as being Daniel's last resting place it's a very eerie place it's not certainly a place that anyone would want to go and visit out of their natural accord and it was it was actually more it was more moving this morning visiting the memorial site where Daniel was abducted and acknowledging all the flowers and cards and tributes that are there that was more moving the primary site of the search is more a horror place for us to visit as a family but it's somewhere where you have to go but you don't want to go Bradley's generally quiet in his demeanour and he was definitely very quiet on that occasion we just gave each other space and comfort as they needed and he wasn't a broken young man but you could visibly see in his facial expressions that he was hurting inside we did our best as a family to ensure that that was minimised and certainly over the course of the week he's got back on that awesome to get on with life and certainly the news on Sunday was another beating but he's genuinely back at work today and surrounding himself with good positive things and trying to get on with life and that's a good thing it was top this morning of a permanent memorial for Daniel it was suggestions on radio about painting the underpass red and stuff like that and having an ongoing reminder of Daniel in a permanent structure we haven't really considered that probably keeping the memorial still at the underpass there in a place that we can go and visit although we're not going to visit seems to be the one everyone's adopted is not it to a large degree the Daniel Morgan Foundation is Daniel's legacy and that's something that is tangible and can make a difference to other kids and we think that's a more fitting memory than perhaps some sort of statue or bridge painted in a red pala so we just want the foundation to grow but more than that make a difference in protecting kids and if there's statistics on a national basis regarding abductions and sexual assaults of young kids the foundation is on the right track doing good work and let's hope that continues thank you cheers