Allen Redston

**Allen Redston** (August 24, 1960 – September 27, 1966) was six years old when he was abducted outside his friend's home in Canberra in 1966. His body was found next to a creek a few streets away.

## Events

### Life

Allen Geoffrey Redston was born on August 24, 1960 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia to Brian and Violet Redston. He was one of four children.

### Last seen alive

On September 27, 1966 in Canberra, Australia, six-year-old Allen Redston and his brother were sent by their mother to go buy ice cream for themselves. Allen's brother walked back home while Allen walked to Holman Street where a friend of his lived. He wanted to go play at the Curtin tip. Allen waited outside but after a short period of time left the area.

His parents reported him missing later that day.

### Body found

The next day Allen's body was found among reeds next to a creek bed in the vicinity of Dry and Service Streets, Curtin, the same suburb he went missing in.

Police believe his body was moved to the location after he was murdered.

His hands and feet had been bound, and he had been wrapped in carpet, and a green and white floral dressing gown. He died of asphyxiation (strangulation).

The dressing gown was later identified as belonging to a local resident which had been left along with other rubbish in a nearby builders' dump.

The case of Allen Redston's murder went cold.

Allen is buried at Woden Cemetery in Canberra. His grave's epitaph reads "God has him in his keeping[;] we have him in our hearts".

### Trying to solve the cold case

In November 2003 detectives interviewed several people in Queensland, a state approximately 900 km (560 mi) away from Canberra. The next month detectives nominated a man as a suspect but were unable to establish a link between him and Allen's murder.

In October 2004 detectives launched an appeal to renew contact with two people whom investigators are convinced have information about Allen's murder.

44 years after Allen died, Allen's father Brian passed away at 76 years old January 14, 2011. He's buried next to his son in Woden Cemetery.

### A child killer on his deathbed

In 2013, Derek Percy, a man convicted of killing 12-year-old Yvonne Tuohy in 1969 was dying of cancer. While in the hospital, police sat next to his bed and asked him questions about several cold cases from the 1960s, including that of Allen Redston's murder. Derek didn't admit to Allen's murder but it's believed by some that he is the killer.

## News

*For news articles on Allen Redston, see here.*

## External links

* Allen Geoffrey Redston (1960-1966) • Find a Grave
* Allen Redston • Australian Capital Territory Policing
* Redston family tree • Ancestry (paywall)
* The Unsolved Murder of Allen Geoffrey Redston • Forgotten Illawarra

## In popular media

### Books

* Unsolved Australia by Justine Ford (1 Jul 2015)

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allen Geoffrey Redston (1960-1966) • Find a Grave
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Allen Redston • Australian Capital Territory Policing
3. ↑ Brian Geoffrey Redston (1934-2011) • Find a Grave
4. ↑ 29 Jul 2015: Revealed: The chilling clues convicted child killer Derek Percy let slip in his final breaths as top cop questioned him on his death bed over infamous Wanda Beach and Beaumont cold case mysteries • Daily Mail