Muriel McKay dig called off after police search for remains 'unsuccessful'
Detectives said they have found 'no evidence relating to her kidnap and murder' following a search of Stocking Farm in Hertfordshire.
Police have called off the search for murdered Muriel McKay's remains after scouring a farm in Hertfordshire.
55-year-old Muriel was kidnapped and murdered 55 years ago in a horrific case of mistaken identity.
Police say they have found 'no evidence relating to her kidnap and murder' in the third search of Stocking Farm for the murdered woman's remains.
It comes after detectives ruled out flying her killer over from Trinidad to join dig.
Muriel's family have been calling for police to bring convicted killer Nizamodeen Hosein to the excavated site to uncover where he buried her body in 1970.
The family believe she cannot be found without Hosein's assistance, slamming the search as 'nonsense' and 'pointless' without Hosein being there, calling it 'the blind leading the blind'.
Muriel, the wealthy wife of newspaper executive Alick McKay, was kidnapped and held ransom for £1 million more than 54 years ago.
The people who kidnapped her had mistaken her for Anna Murdoch, the then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Alick McKay, who was Mr Murdoch’s deputy, was also Australian.
His 55-year-old wife Muriel disappeared in December 1969 and was traced to Stocking Farm near Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire.
Her body has never been found. Brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein were convicted of her kidnap and murder.
Arthur died in prison in 2009, and Nizamodeen was deported to Trinidad and Tobago after serving his sentence.
The farm was searched at the time of the murder and again in 2022, with 30 police officers, ground penetrating radar and specialist forensic archaeologists used, but nothing new was found.
In a letter to the murdered woman's family, Katherine Godwin, Detective Superintendent in the Met Police, said: "We have now completed the search of the area set out in the agreed parameters, along with an additional strip which we identified was not covered by the 2022 search or the 2024 parameters.
"I am so sorry to say that the search has not been successful in finding Muriel's remains or any evidence relating to her kidnap and murder."
