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 confessed to the killing and that he had "intended to have sexual intercourse" with her before carrying out the murder.
Despite this, officers did not have enough evidence to charge the youth and the case was closed.
There was finally hope for the family when the case was re-opened in 2016 and the man was arrested and charged the following year. The man, then 65, pleaded not guilty to Cheryl's murder in September that year.
He had been due to stand trial putting an end to almost 50 years of misery for Cheryl's family but the case has now been dropped and his interviews from the 1970s deemed inadmissible.
Detectives investigating the suspected murder of a British toddler abducted from an Australian beach 50 years ago are offering a million-dollar reward.
Cheryl's brother, Ricki Nash, said he hoped the reward, equivalent to £528,000, would bring justice. He said: "There are no words to describe the pain of losing a sister and the impact Cheryl's disappearance has had on our entire family. "Every day we are reminded of the tragic way she was taken from us, and we hope this reward is what is needed to bring justice for Cheryl."
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