Man arrested over 1968 killing

The teenager was found dead after hitch-hiking in 1968

Detectives investigating a 33-year-old murder case have arrested a man in the West Midlands.

The body of 14-year-old schoolboy Roy Tutill was found strangled and sexually assaulted in 1968.

Surrey Police say a man in his sixties was arrested at his home in Solihull on Wednesday for questioning about the killing.

The teenager, who attended Kingston Grammar School in Surrey, was last seen on 23 April, 1968, trying to hitch-hike from Leatherhead Road, Hook, to his home in Brockham Green, near Dorking.

Three days later his body was discovered in a copse at the entrance to the Cherkley Court estate, belonging to press baron Lord Beaverbrook, at Mickleham, Surrey.

The killing is the county's only unsolved child murder and prompted one of the largest police investigations in the region at the time.

A spokeswoman for Surrey Police said the arrested man would also be questioned about the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old schoolboy in Chertsey, Surrey, in April 1999 and of a seven-year-old boy from Heston service station on the M4 in 1998.

The arrest follows the re-opening of the case last month when a team of retired detectives who worked on the original investigation were called together to go back over all the evidence.

Former Detective Chief Inspector "Paddy" Doyle, who headed the inquiry in 1968, flew in from Ireland 25 years after retiring from the force.