A salesman accused of assisting in the abduction of his seven-year-old nephew in England has walked free after a judge concluded that there was a “serious defect” in family court paperwork served on him by police.

The body of a four-year-old boy who slipped from a jetty is believed to have been washed out to sea after specialist sonar equipment failed to find him, experts said today.

AMERICAN oil and banking heir Matthew Mellon yesterday expressed his relief after he was cleared of illegally being involved with a private detective agency which tried to hack into his ex-wife’s emails.