20 years on: Family in new plea for information over missing schoolboys
A fresh family plea has been made over the disappearance of two Midlands schoolboys 20 years ago which a former Shropshire man and convicted child murderer was questioned about.
David Spencer, 13, and Patrick Warren, 11, went missing in the West Midlands on Boxing Day 1996. A decade later, former convicted child murderer Brian Field was interviewed about the deaths.
He has always denied being involved and has not been charged with their disappearance.
This week, David's brother, Lee O'Toole, urged anyone with information to come forward to help bring closure for his family.
Mr O'Toole, 29, said he still suffered nightmares about the day his older brother disappeared.
"I've come to terms with the fact David is dead but I wake every night wondering what happened to him and how he died," he said.
"I just want to find him so he can be laid to rest and we can have somewhere to go and visit him."
The two boys were last seen at a petrol station in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, near to Field's then home.
Field, 77, who used to work as a milking machine engineer in north Shropshire in the 1980s, was a prolific offender and was twice jailed for offences in the county.
While living in Shropshire he was convicted and fined at Wrexham Magistrates Court or gross indecency, after he passed obscene notes to undercover police in a public lavatory.
