Daniel James Morcombe
Witnesses have recalled seeing strange men with a boy matching Daniel Morcombe's description, with one claiming the missing teen asked him for help nine months after his disappearance.
Six people gave evidence on Tuesday at the committal hearing of Brett Peter Cowan, who is accused of murdering Daniel.
Daniel was 13 when he went missing while waiting for a bus on the Sunshine Coast in December 2003.
Cowan, 43, is charged with murder, child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.
Bernard Rumbel told the Brisbane Magistrates Court he believed he saw Daniel in Port Macquarie in NSW on September 2, 2004.
He said he was waiting outside a shop for his son when a young boy approached him and asked for help.
Mr Rumbel said the boy twice told him his name was Daniel Morcombe before being berated by a well-dressed, tall man in his 40s with whom he left a short time later.
Mr Rumbel said he contacted the police a few months later after seeing a missing person advertisement about Daniel on a pizza box.
"I noticed a photo on the pizza box and I realised that was the same boy, as far as I was concerned, that I was talking to," he said, adding he was 90 per cent sure it was Daniel.
A number of other witnesses testified they saw one or two men with a blue car standing near Daniel while he waited for the bus under the Kiel Mountain Road overpass.
Two said they saw a blue car drive past them on the Sunshine Coast later that day with a man fighting someone in the back seat.
Belinda Russell said she wrote down the registration number on a shopping list, but had since lost the piece of paper.
The hearing won't sit on Wednesday. Two further witnesses will give evidence on Thursday before the hearing is adjourned until February.
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