AUSTRALIA
Mercury
PATRICK BILLINGS
Police Reporter
Mercury
A FORMER Tasmanian priest has been linked to one of Australia’s most notorious and heart-wrenching missing persons cases — the disappearance of toddler William Tyrrell.
Convicted paedophile Derek Edward Nichols, 82, has emerged as another person NSW police have interviewed in the case that continues to baffle investigators and shock the nation.
William, often pictured in his beloved Spider-Man suit, vanished from his grandmother’s home in Kendall, NSW, in September 2014 when he was three.
Nichols, a former Anglican priest, who previously lived near William’s grandmother, was convicted of indecently assaulting a boy in Tasmania in 1987.
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