He confessed to killing a toddler – but five decades on hasn't been prosecuted

Cheryl Grimmer disappeared from an Australian beach in 1970 after her family emigrated from Bristol. A suspect confessed to strangling the three-year-old but legal technicalities have prevented prosecution.


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