A NSW politician has revealed the name of a man who confessed to abducting and murdering toddler Cheryl Grimmer at a beach south of Sydney in 1970 and shared the details that convinced police he was guilty of the heinous crime.

The lost girl’s family broke down in tears, telling the media the alleged killer could have kept his name and family hidden from public view if he had met their demands for answers.

The man, now in his 60s, has walked the streets under the pseudonym “Mercury” since his murder trial collapsed in 2019.

NSW MP Jeremy Buckingham on Thursday used parliamentary privilege to name Mercury despite the statutory restriction on publishing his name, which has stood since the day he was arrested and charged in 2017.

“That this House notes that: (a) In 1971 a boy... confessed

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