THE father of missing Sydney toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui repeatedly joked about collecting the reward offered for information about the child's disappearance, an inquest has heard.
A secretly-taped telephone conversation between the girl's father, Hosayn El-Dennaoui, and his brother-in-law and cousin, Said Dennaoui, was played in Glebe Coroner's Court on Wednesday.
The 19-month-old was last reported seen at her parents' home in Lurnea, in Sydney's southwest, in the early hours of November 10, 2005.
Police began intercepting relatives' phone calls before an inquest began in April this year and continued until at least June.
Earlier on Wednesday, an aunt of the toddler, Rouba Dennaoui, admitted she referred to the inquest using the phrase "cutting the grass" during phone conversations with Hosayn El-Dennaoui because she "had a feeling" her calls could have been intercepted.
In one call, Hosayn El-Dennaoui is heard talking to his brother-in-law Mr Dennaoui in Arabic about the "150,000, they haven't transferred them to me".
He then suggests that another relative should confess and "we'll collect half the reward money".
Under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner, Peggy Dwyer, Mr Dennaoui admitted this was a reference to the $250,000 reward offered by the NSW government for information about Rahma's disappearance.
Mr Dennaoui said the "jokes" were "very stupid and silly" and that Mr El-Dennaoui was a grieving father.
"He's very upset. He want to know what happened to his own child," he said.
The court heard Mr El-Dennaoui was a strict father who tried to "teach the kids the right way".
But Mr Dennaoui said he had never seen Mr El-Dennaoui lose his temper or demand silence from his many children.
The court also heard that telephone charge sheets showed Mr Dennaoui and his wife Wahede Dennaoui called each other on the night of November 9, 2005, when Mr Dennaoui said he was home and believed his wife to be home.
The court had previously heard from two witnesses, neither of whom can be named for legal reasons, that Wahede Dennaoui had stayed at the El-Dennaoui house until about 2am on November 10, 2005, and that the toddler had been sick with a high fever.
Earlier on Wednesday, Rouba Dennaoui told the court that any suggestion her husband, Ahmed Dennaoui, had gone out for hours on the night of Rahma's disappearance was untrue.
She told counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich, SC, she was a light sleeper and would have woken if her husband had left the house during the night.
Mr Bromwich told her that by referring in a "secretive" way to the rumour that Ahmed Dennaoui had some involvement in the toddler's disappearance, she appeared concerned "not that it is untrue, but that it's true and you want to suppress it".
The inquest continues before Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund.
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