Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, originally from Bristol, vanished from a shower block in Wollongong, New South Wales, on 12 January 1970.

Back in 1968 the Grimmer family were embarking on their new life on the other side of the world.

Their bright future was gone in an instant following Cheryl's disappearance from outside a shower block on January 12, 1970. The theory was that she had been kidnapped. This was backed up by witness reports at the time who claimed to have seen a man holding Cheryl, wrapped in a towel, up to drink water from a fountain and who then ran off with her. There were also claims she had been driven off in a white car.

Then, just over a year after Cheryl vanished a local teenager confessed to the killing. Due to his age the boy was never identified. In police interviews in the early 1970s he reportedly co ...