Family of Cheryl Grimmer say ‘what we want now is the truth’ after NSW MP names suspect in parliament

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Source: theguardian.com
Family of Cheryl Grimmer say ‘what we want now is the truth’ after NSW MP names suspect in parliament

Girl’s family had told the man, known by pseudonym ‘Mercury’, to meet with them by Wednesday midnight or they would make his identity public

The family of Cheryl Grimmer has said “what we want now is the truth” after a New South Wales MP used parliamentary privilege to reveal the identity of a man who police previously alleged murdered the UK-born toddler 55 years ago.

Cheryl vanished from outside a shower block while with her mother and three older brothers at Fairy Meadow beach in the Illawarra region of NSW on 12 January 1970.

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