The prime suspect in the disappearance of a British toddler in Australia more than 50 years ago has been sensationally named by an MP in parliament.

Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer was kidnapped from a changing area after spending a morning at the seaside in Wollongong, New South Wales, with her mum and three brothers in 1970.

Her body has never been found.

A year after she vanished, a 17-year-old boy confessed to killing Cheryl, who was originally from Bristol, but police dismissed his claims.

Jeremy Buckingham, of the Legalise Cannabis Party, used parliamentary privilege on Thursday to identify a man known only as ‘Mercury’ for legal reasons.

Mercury, whose identity is protected because he was 16 at the time, was charged in 2017 with Cheryl’s abduction and murder.

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