Police question child-killer

Sunday 17 May 1998 18:02 EDT

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Police question child-killer

PAEDOPHILE child-killer Sidney Cooke is to be questioned by police about the death 14 years ago of a seven-year-old boy.

Cooke, who is being held in protective police custody and is said to be living in fear as a result of public anger at his release last month from prison, is to be quizzed over the death of Mark Tildesley, the Mail on Sunday reported yesterday.

Mark vanished from Wokingham, Berkshire, after visiting a funfair in June 1984. The paper says Cooke, who police believe was part of a paedophile gang that abducted, abused and strangled the boy, will be asked where the body is buried.

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