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amalan11 · ‎24-03-2017

With the awful terror attack in London this case seems to have taken a low profile ,

A 63 year old security guard from melbourne has been arrested over the abduction and murder of 3 yr old Cheryl Grimmer in NSW in 1970.

Im really glad they have got an arrest and hope he is the guilty person at last. What gets me is if he is responsible, he was a main suspect back at the time, I wonder what his life has been like.According to the police he abducted raped and strangled her when he was 16.

I am dubious you could commit such an awful crime and then go through life without commiting more crimes of a similar nature.Its quite amazing really .He has 3 grown children and id guess to be a security guard must not have a criminal record.

I will be interested to see how the courts treat him as the offence was so long ago , he was refused bail so hopefully he will serve time , child abduct murders are about as heinous as crimes go but if he can convince a court he has changed I wonder what they will do.As he was 16 he has his identity protected .

tragic but interesting case legaly

davidc4430 · ‎25-03-2017

if they can prove he did it beyond doubt hang him

BUT

lets see the evedence stand up in court.

arresting someone is one thing, proving he did it is another. lets hope its not another lyndie chamberland case where we end up saying "OOPS"

so long ago, gawd the lawyers will have a field day.

not_for_sale2025 · ‎25-03-2017

I too wonder how his mind and emotions have been. I6 is pretty young to commit such a crime. I guess if he has any real humanness then he may have been tortured all these years. But if he's more of a psychopath, then he probably has no remorse and has slept well for decades. Of course this is if he is guilty.

the_great_she_elephant · ‎27-03-2017

A police spokesman said the little girl had suffered a shocking and horrific death, which suggestes to me, since her body has never been found, that the man must have made some kind of confession. I think he is under psychiatric assessment at the moment - presumably to see if he is fit to plead - and I'm wondering if he is planning to plead guilty.

johcaschro · ‎27-03-2017

He's probably just a "lone wolf" with "mental health issues".

bright.ton42 · ‎27-03-2017

@amalan11 wrote:

I am dubious you could commit such an awful crime and then go through life without commiting more crimes of a similar nature.Its quite amazing really .

Then of course we don't know if he hasn't committed more such crimes. I don't think the little girl's body has been found. It's very curious as to why he has been arrested after all this time.

the_great_she_elephant · ‎27-03-2017

@johcaschro wrote:
He's probably just a "lone wolf" with "mental health issues".

Probably. As far as I know there has been no suggestion he had accomplices - and even if you were legally sane, you'd have to be pretty screwed up mentally to commit a crime like that.

the_great_she_elephant · ‎27-03-2017

@bright.ton42 wrote:
@amalan11 wrote:

I am dubious you could commit such an awful crime and then go through life without commiting more crimes of a similar nature.Its quite amazing really .
Then of course we don't know if he hasn't committed more such crimes. I don't think the little girl's body has been found. It's very curious as to why he has been arrested after all this time.

I think he may have trurned himself in.