Man Jailed For False Confession In Daniel Morcombe Case Daniel Morcombe. A convicted child sex offender has been jailed for four years for falsely confessing his involvement in Daniel Morcombe's murder as revenge against his adopted father. The 41-year-old told a coronial inquest, into the Sunshine Coast then missing teen's demise, that he had been involved in planning the abduction, watched his adoptive father sexually assault Daniel at Greenbank military barracks and then dump his body in the Brisbane River. He initially tried to implicate the older man, who he had been in a sexual relationship with from age 15 to 32 after allegedly being "groomed" as a street kid in Victoria, just after Daniel went missing. Crown prosecutor Glen Cash told Brisbane Supreme Court on Monday that the motivation behind the false account was most likely revenge or retribution. Defence barrister Joshua Jones said his client had a tragic upbringing marred by sexual abuse. Daniel Morcombe was aged 13 when he was abducted on the Sunshine Coast and killed in December 2003. His remains were recovered in August 2011. Brett Peter Cowan has been committed to stand trial for the murder of the Sunshine Coast teenager.