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Unfortunately member-only story but had some interesting information:
THE milk bar owner, Samuel Reginald Sinnott, became an early suspect after giving conflicting accounts about whether Denise came into his shop that night.
He told police she hadnt, but told Sun reporter Tony Wilson she came in alone and bought two bottles of soft drink and an Easter egg.
At Denises inquest in 1978, Sinnott stuck to his story that Denise had been in his shop shortly before she disappeared but changed his story again by giving evidence that four or five young men around the 20 age group had been in the shop at the same time.
That was despite the police officer who interviewed Sinnott telling the coroner Sinnott had told him he hadnt seen Denise at all that night.
The police brief of evidence given to the coroner in 1978 said inquiries had revealed Denise used to go to a pinball parlour in Broadmeadows that was frequented by the youth of the area.
Inquiries at her school showed she used to talk to a lot of boys and skite about having boyfriends around the age of 19 to 21 years, it said.
This may have been just talk on her part as her last boyfriend, a Gary Campbell from Broadmeadows, was aged 14 years.
She was a typical schoolgirl who considered a friendship with a boy for a week meant that he was her boyfriend.
It was ascertained she used a CB radio at a friends place, but the identity of the girl is not known, that she met a youth by the name of Frank who used the call-sign Lightning One.
In spite of publicity, Frank has not come forward.
Also that she had asked a school friend to give her an alibi for the night of March 20 (the night she went missing), would indicate that she had made tentative arrangements to meet some person that evening.
That person has not come forward.
