Daniel Morcombe's parents are considering a funeral on the ninth anniversary of his disappearance. Source: AAP
DANIEL Morcombe's family will finally lay their son to rest, nine years to the day after he went missing.
Daniel's funeral will be held on Friday, December 7, the anniversary of his 2003 disappearance, his mother Denise said on Friday.
She said it would be a public ceremony and people would be invited to wear some red and donate to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation instead of giving flowers.
"It's to be a positive celebration of Daniel's life," Mrs Morcombe told AAP.
The funeral will be held at the St Catherine of Siena Church at Sippy Downs on the Sunshine Coast.
The plans follow the state coroner's sudden decision a day earlier to release Daniel's remains, which were found more than a year ago in bushland in the Glasshouse Mountains.
Earlier, the Morcombes said they were shocked but relieved at the decision.
"It means everything. We've been waiting nine years and we can put Daniel to rest now," Mrs Morcombe told reporters outside the committal hearing for Daniel's accused murderer, Brett Peter Cowan, 42.
The hearing at Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday heard disturbing evidence about the afternoon Daniel vanished.
Two witnesses told of seeing a man in an older model blue sedan at the overpass where Daniel went missing.
Nambour resident Keith Lipke said he saw someone under a tarpaulin in the back seat of a blue car.
The sedan was being driven by a clean-shaven man with brown hair past his collar, Mr Lipke said.
"When I looked at the back seat, it had a tarpaulin over it and it appeared to me there were kids playing under it, jumping around," he told the court under cross-examination.
Mr Lipke saw the man turn to the back seat with an annoyed expression and say something.
"As he went past (I noticed) that the tarp was taut. It wasn't flying around any more."
He said he saw a flash of red under the tarpaulin, "like Santa Claus".
Daniel was wearing a red T-shirt on the day he disappeared.
A second witness said she saw a "clean-cut" man standing by the passenger door of an older blue sedan with NSW number plates.
Lily Obah told the court it looked like the man was pushing someone's head down in the front seat as she drove past.
Outside court Cowan's lawyers said they expected the judge to decide the crown had a case and commit their client to a trial.
But defence lawyer Tim Meehan said there was no direct evidence against the 42-year-old, who is charged with murder, child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.
Any trial would probably be a year off, Mr Meehan's colleague Michael Bosscher said.
Daniel was 13 when he disappeared while waiting for a bus on the Sunshine Coast in 2003.
The hearing continues on Monday.
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