Freshly confirmed details are helping narrow the timeline of three-year-old Noah Woods’ final movements, even as several important questions remain for the coroner to examine.

Police say Noah’s last confirmed CCTV sighting was at 2:37 p.m. on September 15, when he was at the playground in Merriam Close, Brantham. He was then reported to have run down the alley beside the play area toward the nearby new-build estate and the area around Decoy Pond. Officers subsequently reviewed CCTV and doorbell footage and carried out house-to-house enquiries while specialist teams searched the surrounding area.

The search ended the following afternoon when Metropolitan Police divers recovered a child’s body from Decoy Pond. Formal identification later confirmed it was Noah. Suffolk Police have said his death is not being treated as suspicious, but they still have outstanding enquiries to complete before submitting their file to the coroner.

The scale of the operation was extraordinary. Specialist police search teams, dog units, helicopters, coastguard personnel, firefighters, dive teams and approximately 1,300 members of the public took part. The official police account shows that investigators were simultaneously checking land routes, homes, surveillance footage and water as they tried to reconstruct where Noah went after leaving the playground.

What has not been publicly established is a newly discovered piece of evidence showing foul play. As of the latest official update available on September 21, police have announced no suspicious circumstances and no criminal suspect. The key unresolved issue is therefore more specific: exactly how Noah travelled from the playground area to the pond, and what happened during that short period before he entered the water.

The case has continued to draw an enormous public response. More than £95,000 had been raised for Noah’s family by September 19, with thousands of donations and tributes left near the playground. His father described him as the “sweetest and most innocent little boy.”