Joe Peters, talks to the Roachdale Observer over the delay of the identification of Eden, months after our organisation track this individual down in Mexico, Police are still have to identify him.

Man’s identity is still a mystery

by Damon Wilkinson
4/11/2008
POLICE have yet to establish if a man arrested in Mexico is missing Littleborough paedophile Andrew Eden.

As the Observer reported, a man thought to be Eden, who was jailed for six years for molesting a child, was arrested in Mexico on 13 September.

In a statement released at the time Greater Manchester Police said: “GMP has been informed that a 48-year-old man, wanted for failing to comply with notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, has been arrested in Mexico.”

But almost two months after the arrest GMP has still not received notification of his identity, a spokesman confirmed this week. Officers are believed to have sent Eden’s fingerprints to the Mexican authorities.

Eden, formerly of Whitelees Road, Littleborough, vanished after being released from prison in 2003.

The former fireman was placed on the sex offenders register and ordered to notify police of his address. But when he failed to do so a manhunt was launched.

Website Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre posted Eden’s details online in a bid to help police track him down.

And in April last year the Observer published an appeal for his whereabouts.

Joe Peters, of the Foundation of Survivors, a support group for victims of sexual abuse, criticised the delay.

He said: “I am appalled that it is taking so long. This man should be identified and, if it is him, brought back to England.”

In 2005 three cash withdrawals were made in Eden’s name in Mexico and he is also thought to have lived across the UK.

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