Daniel James Morcombe
A woman who claims she saw two men trying to bundle Daniel Morcombe into a car has told a court she suffered post-traumatic stress from what she witnessed.
Judith McIntyre told the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday that she drove past the Kiel Mountain Road overpass on December 7, 2003 and saw a man telling a boy in a red shirt to get in a waiting car.
'I heard the man yell 'get in the car' and the boy say 'you can't make me, I'm not gonna',' she said.
Ms McIntyre told the court she saw the man dive for the boy while a second man tried to stop him from escaping.
She said she suffered post-traumatic stress from the incident, which she didn't start to remember until some months later.
Ms McIntyre was one of eight witnesses to give evidence in the committal hearing for Brett Peter Cowan on Monday.
Cowan, 43, is accused of murdering Daniel, who was 13 when he went missing in December 2003.
Cowan is charged with murder, child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.
Several other witnesses recalled seeing an unidentified male or males standing near a boy matching Daniel's description at the suspected abduction site.
Terry Theuerkauf and Katherine Bird described a man in his thirties standing behind Daniel as he tried unsuccessfully to flag down a bus on which they were passengers.
Both described the man as having dark hair and some facial hair.
They said he was wearing shorts, leaning against the overpass wall, and that he did not have any interaction with Daniel as the bus drove past.
However, Mr Theuerkauf and Ms Bird said they were not confident enough in their brief observations of the man to give police an adequate description to create a comfit picture.
'I was asked to, but I was unwilling to do the comfit as it was really quick,' Ms Bird said.
A number of other passengers on the bus gave similar descriptions of the man, while at least one other also described seeing a man with blonde hair.
The hearing will continue on Tuesday.
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