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Witnesses have testified at a Brisbane murder committal hearing that they saw a man and boy struggle in the back of a car the day teenager Daniel Morcombe disappeared.
Brett Peter Cowan, 43, is accused of killing Daniel after abducting him while the schoolboy waited for a bus under the Kiel Mountain Road Overpass on the Sunshine Coast in 2003.
Andrew Jackson told the Brisbane Magistrates Court that he saw a fight between a child and a man in the back of a car as he drove towards Caloundra.
Another witness, Gympie resident Belinda Russell testified about being overtaken by a blue sedan on the Nambour Connection Road.
She said a man was punching down into the seat and a shoe kicked up defensively at the man.
She wrote down the car's number plate but lost the piece of paper.
Meanwhile, Cowan has been denied an application to be excused from appearing in person at his Brisbane committal hearing.
Cowan sought to be excused from appearing in court on Thursday for the last day of the current sittings.
Chief Magistrate Brendan Butler denied the application to appear via videolink from jail, after hearing the request was made solely for Cowan's convenience.
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In court on Tuesday, Caloundra man Gregory Smith recalled seeing a car parked under the overpass and a man in the driver's seat, while a second man spoke to a boy nearby.
Mr Smith told the court he has children and something seemed odd about the boy's interaction with the man.
Nambour resident Kerryn Siver saw a man walking towards a boy.
She thought the pair were father and son and had just run out of fuel because the man was walking away from a parked car.
Bernard Rumbel, told the court today he saw a boy matching Daniel's description in New South Wales almost a year after his abduction from the Sunshine Coast.
Mr Rumbel, from Port Macquarie in New South Wales, testified via video link at the committal hearing on Tuesday.
He said he was taking his son to the shops to buy lollies when he was approached by a boy and a well-dressed man in September 2004.
Mr Rumbel said the man spoke roughly to the boy.
He said the boy asked for help and claimed to be Daniel Morcombe.
Mr Rumbel said he went to the police after seeing Daniel's missing persons photo on a pizza box.
The hearing has now adjourned until Thursday for one more witness, and will then continue in the new year.
A funeral for Daniel will be held at the St Catherine of Siena Church in Sippy Downs on the Sunshine Coast on Friday at 11:00am (AEST).
The service will coincide with the ninth anniversary of his disappearance.
About 3,000 people are predicted to attend.
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