Cops: Killer didn’t tell us where Muriel’s body is
Family’s hell as 55-year riddle goes on
BY TOM PETTIFOR Crime Editor
A MURDERER has failed to give detectives reliable information about where he buried his victim 55 years ago, police have said.
Muriel McKay was kidnapped in 1969 and held at a rundown farm for a £1million ransom after being mistaken for the then wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Brothers Nizamodeen and Arthur Hosein were jailed for her murder.
Arthur died in prison in 2009, while Nizamodeen was deported to his native Trinidad after his release.
They denied killing her and refused to say where she was buried.
Muriel’s family said they are disappointed with Scotland Yard after Det Supt Katherine Goodwin spent three days interviewing Nizamodeen in the Caribbean last week.
She texted the family to say: “He was unable to provide a location with any consistency, which is not what you or we wanted to find.”
Questions remain over 76-year-old
Hosein’s reliability as a witness. He claims Muriel, 55, died of a heart attack after seeing a TV appeal by her family. At the time it was suspected she had been fed to pigs on the brothers’ farm.
In a meeting last month, Hosein told Muriel’s daughter, Dianne McKay, that he had buried her on the farm in Stocking Pelham, Herts.
He pointed to a picture of the farm and said: “Go through the kitchen door, come through the open land, turn left and it’s two feet from the hedge, by the old manure heap.”
The Met, which carried out an “extensive search” of the farm in March 2022, said yesterday it will give the family a full update when it has assessed Hosein’s account. But for now it looks unlikely there will be another search soon.
DS Goodwin said: “We understand how frustrating and difficult this is for Muriel’s family and are still working to recover her remains.”