http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-entwistle-dad-boy-who-4997740?ICID=FB_mirror_main The father of missing schoolboy Daniel Entwistle was a convicted paedophile, the Sunday People can reveal.
David Entwistle, who has been found dead at home at the age of 53, served a six-month jail sentence before his son’s disappearance.
He was convicted of having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
Police were aware of the conviction when Daniel vanished aged seven in 2003 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, but it was never made public.
Entwistle was interviewed by detectives in the search for his son but never made a suspect.
The railway worker’s marriage to Daniel’s mum Paula ended soon after police told her of the conviction early in the search.
Entwistle, who had drink problems, was found dead at home in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on January 7.
Rumours of his conviction had circulated online but it was only confirmed after the Sunday People made an application to Preston Crown Court this week.
As the conviction happened before 1997, Entwistle never appeared on the Sex Offender Register.A document released on the orders of a judge said: “David Entwistle was upon his own confession convicted upon indictment of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 years on March 26, 1987, at the Crown Court at Preston. He was sentenced to six months.”
Entwistle’s’s estranged father-in-law Keith Dutton told the Sunday People: “It is important this is finally coming out. People should know the truth about David.”
Norfolk police said: “We wouldn’t comment on anyone’s previous convictions.”
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Poor little Daniel, and poor Paula. I hope the father hasn't taken a secret to his grave.
