Evil child killer linked to disappearance of Solihull's Milk Carton Kids dies in prison

A child killer who was the prime suspect in the disappearance of two Solihull schoolboys has died in prison. Convicted rapist Brian Field was jailed for life in 2001 for the kidnap, rape and murder of Roy Tutill in 1968.

He was heavily linked to other unsolved crimes including the disappearance of Patrick Warren and David Spencer - dubbed the Milk Carton Kids - in Chelmsley Wood in December 1996. Patrick and David were aged 11 and 13 respectively at the time of vanishing.

They were among the first faces to appear in a series of missing persons appeals carried on the cardboard containers. Field, 87, from Solihull, always denied involvement with the missing pair.

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The monster was quizzed by West Midlands Police over their disappearance but no charges were ever brought. The Ministry of Justice confirmed yesterday that Field died in February at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will carry out an investigation into his death, reported The Mirror. Field was serving life in jail at the time of his death.

Schoolboy Roy Tutill, 14, was sexually assaulted and killed after accepting a lift from Field. The Kingston Grammar School pupil, who lived in Brockham Green, Dorking, Surrey, was abducted as he hitchhiked between home and school to save money to buy a bicycle. His body was found in a woodland in Mickleham three days later.

More than 30 years after Roy was murdered, police linked Field to the murder when a sample of his DNA was fed into a national police computer system after he was stopped during a routine drink-driving test.