Allan “Max” McIntyre — who was linked to the disappearance of the Beaumont children in 1966 — has died
A MAN linked to the disappearance of the Beaumont children at an Adelaide beach in 1966 has died.
A MAN who has been linked to the disappearance of the Beaumont children at an Adelaide beach in 1966 has died.
It is understood Allan “Max” McIntyre died in a nursing home on the Yorke Peninsula, aged in his late 80s.
He died on Tuesday.
His son, Andrew McIntyre, has spoken publicly about how his father and family friend Anthony Alan Munro — a scout master who will soon be sentenced for 10 child sex offences — were at the Glenelg beach in the days before Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont disappeared on January 26.
Police have previously said there is no evidence linking Max McIntyre and Munro to the high-profile disappearance of the children — aged 9, 7 and 4.
On June 7, Judge Paul Slattery heard how Munro, 75, abused Andrew McIntyre — who gave The Advertiser permission to identify him — when he was a child.
“He will have a long time in prison to think about the other things that he needs to tell the general public,” he said outside court earlier this month.
In his statement to police as part of the investigation into Munro’s abuse, Mr McIntyre alleged his father and Munro were involved in the Beaumonts’ disappearance.
Mr McIntyre told Fairfax earlier this month that a diary he kept with another boy is evidence that his father and Munro were frequenting Glenelg beach in the days before the Beaumont children went missing.
The diary has been handed to SA Police.
The children took the bus from their nearby home to spend the day at Glenelg beach before they were reported missing by their parents at 7.30pm — five hours after they were meant to return home.
Witnesses told police they had seen the children playing with a tall, blond man in his 30s.
The disappearance sparked one of the largest police investigations in the country’s history.