A Brisbane court will hear the last defence of the man accused of murdering Daniel Morcombe. Source: AAP
JURORS cannot rely on the confession of Daniel Morcombe's accused killer because he didn't have time to commit the crime, a Brisbane court has heard.
Brett Peter Cowan, 44, is on trial for the murder and abduction of the Queensland schoolboy from a Sunshine Coast roadside on December 7, 2003.
His defence barrister, Angus Edwards, says it's obvious Cowan's confession is false because he wouldn't have had time to do all the things he said he did.
According to his confession, Cowan abducted Daniel and took him to a demountable house where he choked him, stripped him and then dumped his body in the bush.
"Could he have done all of those things in the time he was away from his home?" Mr Edwards asked jurors as Cowan's murder trial drew to a close on Tuesday.
Mr Edwards also said Cowan had a lot of things wrong in his first confession, such as that Daniel's remains were at the end of Roy's Road and how he transported the body.
"He says he dragged the body to the embankment and then he changes and says 'no I carried it' as if he's making it up as he goes along," Mr Edwards told jurors.
"He says he threw the clothes in a fast-flowing creek and, as you know, in that area there was only one bridge over a fast-flowing creek, the other one didn't have fast-flowing water in it.
"But he first took them (undercover police) to the wrong one."
He also said Cowan told police Daniel's bones had been placed in a different area to where they were found.
Mr Edwards said prosecutors had tried to argue that wild dogs had moved the bones, but an expert had proved that was impossible.
"This is thick bushland, dogs didn't drag the carcass from where Mr Cowan said he went. There's not a bone left behind in the area where he says he put Daniel Morcombe," he said.
Mr Edwards says Cowan falsely confessed to the crime because of the riches on offer from undercover police who were posing as members of a powerful criminal gang.
The only reason he knew roughly where Daniel's remains were was because a friend of convicted pedophile Douglas Jackway had told him.
Mr Edwards said it was much more likely that Jackway, who had a blue car like the one spotted at the scene of Daniel's disappearance, was the real culprit - not Cowan.
"Does that not all lead you to one rational, logical conclusion, that Jackway together with others, abducted and killed Daniel Morcombe?" Mr Edwards put to the jury.
"How can you reject that possibility beyond reasonable doubt, the possibility of the blue car, involving the blue car and Jackway, it fits all the facts, it explains the things the prosecution case cannot explain."
Summing up in the trial continues.
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