QLD:Daniel Morcombe's twin tells of anguish

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2011
QLD:Daniel Morcombe's twin tells of anguish

BRISBANE, Aug 31 AAP - Daniel Morcombe's twin has told of his anguish over his decision
not to go shopping with his brother on the day he disappeared.

Bradley Morcombe, 21, said Daniel had begged him and older brother Dean to go Christmas
shopping with him, but neither wanted to go.

In the nearly eight years since the Sunshine Coast teenager disappeared, that decision
has plagued his twin.

"I wonder what might have happened if I'd gone with him," he has told the Australian
Women's Weekly.

"Perhaps it would have been both of us that disappeared. But I think that whoever came
along probably wouldn't have tried if there were two people.

"If I'd gone with him, it's more than likely he'd still be here."

He said that thought was difficult to shoulder, but added:

"I didn't know what was going to happen. You can't change what happened. I wish I
did go with him. I wasn't to know."

Daniel was 13 when he disappeared from a bus stop at Woombye, in the Sunshine Coast
hinterland, on December 7, 2003.

Police confirmed on Sunday that bones pulled from swampy bushland on the Sunshine Coast
were Daniel's.

Perth man Brett Peter Cowan, 41, has been charged with Daniel's abduction and murder.

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