On Boxing Day evening in 1996, best friends Patrick Warren and David Spencer left their Chelmsley Wood homes to play outside. Patrick left on his brand-new bicycle, which had been a Christmas present, while David was on foot.
The boys had been spotted by a police officer earlier that afternoon playing with another group of children in Meriden Park, where they had been warned by the officer not to play on the frozen pond.
After returning home, they told their parents of their plans to visit one of Patrick's brothers that evening.
Derek Warren, another of Patrick's brothers, went looking for the boys the next day when he found out that they had not arrived.
The last known sighting of the boys was just after midnight by a petrol station attendant who gave them a packet of biscuits.
Patrick's brand-new red Apollo bicycle was found abandoned behind the petrol station near the bins, although the police did not realise that it was his until several weeks later.
Paedophile and serial offender against young boys Brian Lunn Field became the prime suspect in the case after his conviction in 2001 for abducting 14-year-old schoolboy Roy Tutill in his car and then murdering him after offering him a lift.
Field had worked as a self-employed gardener in the area for several local families, had access to open ground in the area, and was a regular drinker in pubs close to the boys' homes.
Field had also worked as a gardener for the family of the boy killed in 1984.
