Daniel Morcombe could be inside a blue barrel stamped with the number 23, the Maroochydore Coroners Court was told yesterday.

A Brisbane pimp and drug dealer named Adam Andrews, who frequented the Fortitude Valley, rolled that drum into the Brisbane River near the refinery.

The court heard yesterday an emotional prisoner, known as P1, told police the 13-year-old had not “fulfilled his role” as a child prostitute so he was dumped a week after he disappeared from the Kiels Mountain overpass on Nambour Connection Road on December 7, 2003.

P1, a person of interest in Daniel's suspected murder, said he was present when Andrews – a 30-year-old living in the north Brisbane area – rolled Daniel into the river.