NSW: Sex offender involved in Renee Aitken disappearance - court
An inquest has been told interviews with a Victorian prisoner have convinced them hewas involved in the disappearance of five-year-old RENEE AITKEN 19 years ago.
An intruder snatched RENEE from her bedroom at Narooma, on the far south coast of NewSouth Wales, in 1984.
Detective Sergeant TED FREEMAN has told the inquest police interviewed BRIAN JAMESFITZPATRICK at a Melbourne prison in 1987 and had no doubt he was involved in RENEE'sdisappearance.
At the time of the interview, FITZPATRICK was serving time for indecent assault.
He refused to be re-interviewed by police when the case was reopened in September 1998,and died in a car accident just weeks before the current inquest was to begin.
Sergeant FREEMAN has told the inquest at Albury courthouse in southern NSW that FITZPATRICKtold police he visited Narooma in February 1984 with RENEE's aunt BONNIE AITKEN.
He said FITZPATRICK also told police that on the night of RENEE's disappearance hedrove three times past the flat where RENEE lived.
AAP RTV stringer/hn/nf/wjf/rp
KEYWORD: AITKEN (SYDNEY)
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