A man met the person who killed his grandmother to try and find where her body was hidden. The police told him they will look for her remains next month.
Muriel McKay, who was 55 years old, was taken by force in 1969 because the kidnappers thought she was Rupert Murdoch’s wife at the time. They demanded £1 million in exchange for her release and kept her on a farm in Hertfordshire.
Last month, Mark Randolph Dyer and his mom went to Trinidad to meet Nizamodeen Hosein, the person who killed Muriel.
The police are still talking to the family.
Muriel McKay was married to Rupert Murdoch’s deputy Alick McKay. She was taken from her house in Wimbledon, London on December 29, 1969. She was kept on a farm close to Bishop’s Stortford.
Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein were found guilty of kidnapping and killing someone. Arthur died in jail in 2009, while Nizamodeen was sent back to Trinidad & Tobago after he finished his punishment.
In an interview with BBC Three Counties Radio, Mr. Dyer said that the police have put together a new team and they are going to go back to the farm in March to arrest my grandmother, which is good news.
“They also said they are going to Trinidad the week after next to meet Nizamodeen Hosein and bring him back to England. ”
Mr Dyer, who is 59 years old, and his mother Dianne McKay, who is 83 years old, met Hosein last month. They said the meeting was hard but also went very well.
Mr Dyer said: “I’m sure that Nizamodeen Hosein wants us to have Muriel back. ” “It’s really hard to see someone being so honest about doing something so terrible. ”
He also said that the farm owner said he wants to help the police with their investigation.
Detective Superintendent Katherine Goodwin from The Met said: “Our detectives have met with Muriel’s family and other people to talk to them and collect information they found during their trip to Trinidad. ” We appreciate the time and help they gave us.
We will look at this information and decide what to do next in our investigation. We know that Muriel’s family is going through a hard time and we are still trying to find her body.
The family of murdered Muriel McKay is urging police to launch a new search for her remains on a remote beach after the discovery of a long-lost “confession” by her killer.
According to a letter hidden among old court files Arthur Hosein told his solicitor he buried her body at Jaywick Sands near Clacton, Essex.
It is believed he information was never followed up.
Arthur and his brother Nizamodeen Hosein kidnapped Mrs McKay, the wife of a newspaper executive, in 1969 and held her for ransom before they were arrested and charged with her murder.
Mrs McKay was married to newspaper executive Alec McKay, deputy to Rupert Murdoch who had just bought the Sun newspaper.
The Hosein brothers mistook her for Mr Murdoch’s first wife Anna. The Murdochs were abroad and the McKays were using the boss’s limousine.
They were convicted in one of the first murder trials without the evidence of the victim’s body, denying their involvement and refusing to say what they did with her.
But in a letter to the Appeal Court in 1972, Arthur’s solicitor George Brown, who was trying to get legal aid for his client, wrote: “I have received information that the body of Mrs McKay, who was the alleged victim in this case, was buried at Jaywick Sands, a fact which I have communicated to the local police.
“It may be that there is some merit in what this man says…”
Mrs McKay’s daughter Dianne McKay told Sky News: “In many ways I’d like to halt the whole thing and personally I find it’s an ongoing agony.
“I learned to live with it a long time ago, the loss of my mother and the way it happened.
“I don’t really want to go on and on for ever. But if someone is willing to have a quick look or a proper look for us on this huge beach area maybe that’s a good idea.”
Author Simon Farquhar, who discovered the letter at the bottom of a box of official documents, said the plea for legal aid was rejected and there was no appeal hearing. The solicitor and the killer are now dead.
In three years of research for his new book about the case A Desperate Business, Mr Farquhar said he found no evidence that anyone had acted on the solicitor’s information.
He said: “The solicitor says he informed the local police, but we don’t know whether that’s the police in Essex, or local to Arthur’s prison in Wakefield, or his own office in Birmingham or whatever.
“But as far as I can tell, no police officer was ever given this information. There was no visit to see Arthur in prison, either by the police or by that solicitor. There was no record of any police force having informed Wimbledon CID about this.
“In fact, right up until 25 years later, whenever someone anywhere in Britain went into a police station with some information about this, it was relayed to members of the CID and any officer who was connected with a story looked at it again.”
In April, Scotland Yard detectives reopened the case in the search for Mrs McKay’s remains after the surviving killer Nizamodeen, who had always insisted he didn’t know what happened to her, told her family she had died of a heart attack at the brothers’ Hertfordshire farm and he had buried her there.
The officer in charge said the latest revelation did not justify a new search because he couldn’t verify the information or be sure where it came from.
He said in an email to the McKay family: “We are aware of this letter and have copies of the letter and other related documents.
“We have reviewed, considered, analysed and assessed the information and unfortunately this is one single strand of intelligence.
“In the letter the solicitor states that he has information which suggests that Muriel was buried at Jaywick Sands, which we can assume has come from Arthur. Nonetheless we have done some research on the solicitor and it seems he has since passed away.
“We have no way of knowing exactly where that information came from and therefore unable to attribute, verify or assess the validity of the information. It is with regret that I will not be able to progress this line of enquiry.”
Scotland Yard was asked for an official response.
Source: SkyNews