Three-year-old Cheryl Gene Grimmer vanished from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong in 1970. Photo: HANDOUT/NSW POLICE FORCE

The identity of a man who confessed to abducting a toddler from a beach and murdering her more than 55 years ago has been revealed in a bombshell dropped by a maverick MP.

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Under privilege in the NSW Parliament, Legalise Cannabis party MP Jeremy Buckingham revealed the name of the key suspect, who has the pseudonym "Mercury".

He was accused of abducting and murdering three-year-old Cheryl Gene Grimmer in January 1970 from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong, south

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