SYDNEY, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Australian police have made the oldest cold case arrest in the country's history, apprehending a Melbourne man over a 47-year-old murder.
The 63-year-old man was arrested in Frankston, south-east of Melbourne, late on Wednesday with police saying he would be charged with the abduction and murder of Cheryl Grimmer on Jan. 12, 1970.
Grimmer was three years old when she went missing from the public change rooms at Fairy Meadow Beach, near Woolongong in New South Wales (NSW).
At a press conference on Thursday morning police said they had come to the conclusion that she had died within an hour of being abducted.
The arrested man, who reportedly has a grown up family of his own, was just 16 years of age at the time of Grimmer's disappearance.
News Limited reported that the man told friends about the crime 18 months after the incident at a boys' home.
Police interviewed the accused man, who now goes by a different name than he did then, in 1971 but did not press charges despite the man was divulging details of the crime.
He presented himself to the Frankston police station on Wednesday where he was interviewed for the second time and subsequently arrested and charged.
The case has become one of Australia's most notorious cold cases with Cheryl's brothers, Ricki, Stephen and Paul, continuing the search for their younger sister for 47 years.
In an interview in December 2016, Stephen Grimmer, 52, said the family had never gotten over Cheryl's disappearance.
"You never get over it," he said.
"I ride past (Fairy Meadow beach) all the time and I always look... so it's always on my mind."
He said that both his mother and father died without knowing what had happened to their daughter.
HAVANA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Hurricane Matthew battered the eastern tip of Cuba on Tuesday evening with strong winds, heavy downpours and floods along the coasts of Guantanamo Province, local media said.
Meteorologist Jose Rubiera said the eye wall of Matthew whipped up winds of up to 240 kmph.
The area has never been hit by a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale before.
The expert added that farther away in Baracoa, on the northern coast of Guantanamo, the hurricane brought sustained winds of 150 kmph, heavy rains and coastal flooding.
Baracoa is the most likely exit point of Matthew after it affects the eastern region of the island, Rubiera said.
The eye of the hurricane and its strongest winds and rains will impact the area for around three to four hours, Rubiera said.
Matthew entered Cuban territory at 6:07 p.m. (2207 GMT) on Tuesday in the eastern locality of Punta Caleta, in Guantanamo Province, just a few kilometers west of Punta de Maisi, the most eastern point of this Caribbean nation, said the island's meteorological agency.
Cuba's state daily Granma broadcast photos of rough seas and high waves along the shoreline in the province.
State television informed of power outages throughout many localities of Guantanamo as well as blocked roads and disrupted phone and Internet communications.
Along the southern coast of Guantanamo waves rose up to five meters and strong floods are expected on the northern coast of the province and the neighboring Holguin.
A hurricane warning has been issued for Guantanamo and the eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Granma and Camaguey since Monday.
On its actual track Matthew will exit Cuban territory and move over the sea during the early hours of Wednesday. A turn toward the north-northwest is expected and the hurricane will head to the Bahamas and the eastern coast of the United States.
President Raul Castro has been in the east of the country since Saturday, supervising storm preparations in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo.
Cuba's Civil Defense System has implemented all means to minimize damages with the main goal of avoiding deaths during the hurricane. Over 400,000 people in coastal areas prone to flooding have been evacuated.
In addition to mass evacuations, thousands of people have protected the state's assets and strategic installations for the economy, cut trees and cleaned sewage systems and drains.
Matthew earlier barrelled through western Haiti, killing at least three people with a fourth still missing, and displacing some 9,000 people.
The last major hurricane to hit Cuba was 2012's Sandy, which caused widespread damage to southeast Cuba, killing 11 people, and went on to cause catastrophic flooding in New York, after making an unexpected left turn into the U.S. Eastern Seaboard as it travelled north.
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