The family of the baby, who disappeared from the Australian beach more than 50 years ago, criticized the police for not officially interviewed potential eyewitnesses during the review of the case.
The officers suspect that the three -year -old Cheryl Grimmer was abducted from the beach of a fabulous honey, which is located about 50 miles (80 km) south of Sydney in the new South Wales (New South Wales) when She disappeared on January 12, 1970The Grimmer family has just emigrated from the UK.
Now they were informed that the review, which took four years, did not lead to any new evidence that could lead to condemnation.
They are angry that the three potential eyewitnesses who spoke with Bi -Bi, were not officially interviewed by officers, despite the fact that their contact details are transferred to the police.
Ricky Nash, Brother Cheryl, said that he felt “complete disappointment” about how the review was processed, which, as he understood, was “intended to be a detailed, full view”.
“There is no word, just nothing,” he said about the decision not to officially interview potential eyewitnesses. “Our family cannot move forward without the help of the police.”
Three potential eyewitnesses performed after Bi -Bi broadcast Fairy Meadow True Crime Podcast In 2022, which has since been loaded five million times.
One person who asked to preserve his personality in a private order said that he saw how a teenage boy took a small child from the locker room next to the beach on the day when Scheryl disappeared.
The man said that by phone with the state police, the New South Wales briefly talked about what he had seen, but did not hear anymore from his strength.
Damian Loon, retired detective who worked on the Cheryl case, said he believed that the testimony of the man was “very deserving confidence”Field
In 2017, a man at the age of 60 was accused of abduction and murder of Cheryl after the officers discovered the recognition of the police as a teenager in 1971.
The judge later decided that recognition cannot be presented as judicial evidence.
The accused, known only by his police code name “Mercury” because he was a minor during the alleged crimes, was released in 2019 and All the charges that he refused were droppedField
In the new episode of the Fairy Meadow podcast, the former sergeant Det Det Loone said that he “simply cannot understand” why the police officially did not interview the person who had been talking to BBC, what he would have done if he was still responsible for the investigation of the disappearance of Cheryl.
“I think this is an inaccurate police work,” he added. “This is what they had to do, and I cannot believe that this did not happen.”
He said that, in his opinion, this man was the “only independent evidence” that was on the Fairy MEADOW beach, who saw a teenage boy – at the age of about 16 or 17 – with Scheryl on the day when she disappeared.
“We know that the suspect Mercury was [of] This age group at that time, ”he added.
Kay Tutton, another potential eyewitness, contacted Bi -Bi -x to say that she saw a man took a little girl from the beach on the day when Cheryl disappeared.
“I'm simple [remember] This beautiful little girl, and she was very upset. And this man coped with his hand tightly and said: “Come on.” She obviously did not want to go. “
Kay soon went to the police station, seeing in 1970 the Cheryl went missing, but the officers no longer talked with her after she told them what she saw.
The BBC provided them with updated contact information after Kay, who is now 82 years old, sent us an email about podcast – but she did not hear from the officers.
Another woman, who also asked to preserve her personality in a private personality, told us that a man on her beach near the Fairy Medou came up a few days before the disappearance of Sheril. She says that the new South Wales police did not contact her either.
“I have this information that I could give them, and they are not interested, you know? I'm just disappointed, ”she told us. “This can lead to something.”
Brother Cheryl Ricky, who is now 62 years old, was seven years old when she disappeared. The couple was together in the locker room next to the Fairy Meadow beach, but after he turned away for a few seconds, she left.
He wrote an open letter, emphasizing that, in his opinion, it is mistakes in a police investigation, starting from the day it disappeared.
Kay Tutton, holding her with a child with a photograph, says she saw a man taken the girl from the beach [BBC]
The petition, asking for the state parliament on the investigation to investigate the missing persons, which was observed by the state police of the new South Wales, such as Scheryl, attracted more than 10,000 signatures this summer.
This was discussed in parliament, but in a letter that meets the petitioners, the Minister of Police and the state counter -terrorism did not undertake the obligation to conduct an investigation.
The state police of the New South Wales said that all the information she received, including potential eyewitnesses from the BBC, was properly evaluated. They said that this is not the case when everyone who contacted them would be interviewed.
“Each representation is evaluated according to its advantages, and decisions regarding subsequent actions are made in accordance with the investigative standards and relevance of information for established facts.”
They added that they met the members of the Cheryl family in September last year for a three -hour discussion about a police review, in which “all the well -known and proven facts were clearly outlined.”
In 2020, 50 years after the disappearance of Cheryl, Police of New South Wales proposed a reward for a million Australian dollars (529,000 pounds) to everyone who had information that led to a successful conviction.
Ricky told us: “You offer a reward for a million dollars, people are forward, you are not talking to them. Why offer a reward?
“Was it just to reassure our family, calm the public, just force yourself to look good – it seems that you are doing something? In fact, you are not doing anything. ”
