Detective: No link to Cooke when Philip went missing

Eamon Cooke was a convicted paedophile, who was found guilty of 42 assault charges in 2007 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He died in a hospice last week, aged 79.

He was also the father of 11 children, who are now aged between 20 and 27.

His convictions related to incidences of abuse that dated back to the late 1970s.