Million-dollar reward to solve riddle of British toddler Cheryl Grimmer, abducted in Australia 50 years ago

Bernard Lagan
, Sydney
The Sunday Times
Cheryl Grimmer, second right, aged three, pictured with her brothers. She was kidnapped from a changing room after a day at the seaside in 1970
Cheryl Grimmer, second right, aged three, pictured with her brothers. She was kidnapped from a changing room after a day at the seaside in 1970
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Bernard Lagan
, Sydney
The Sunday Times

Fifty years after the three-year-old daughter of an English family was abducted from an Australian beach police offered A$1 million (£528,000) for information about the crime.

Cheryl Grimmer went missing from a shower block at Fairy Meadow beach, 42 miles south of Sydney in January 1970, despite her mother and three older brothers waiting close by.

In March 2017 a 63-year-old man was arrested over the abduction and suspected murder of the child, whose family had emigrated from Britain the year before she vanished. The charges were dropped shortly before trial in February last year. A judge ruled that a confession the suspect made when he was 17 could not be used. He was 16 when Cheryl disappeared.

The family had moved to Australia from Bristol a few months before the tragedy
The family had moved to Australia from Bristol a few months before the tragedy
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Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty, of New South