/ 4 December 2000

KILLERS TOLD TO GIVE THEMSELVES UP

SYDNEY police on Monday urged thieves who stole a BMW with a two-year-old boy inside to give themselves up after the toddler died from heart failure he suffered after hours locked up inside the car on a sweltering afternoon. The thieves are believed to have dumped the car after discovering they had made off with a child as well. The boy was in cardiac arrest when the car was found and died with his parents at his bedside shortly after being rushed to hospital. A police representative appealed for “anybody to come forward or even the persons who are involved to come forward and assist us with this tragedy”.