Killer tells police where he buried body of woman he killed 54 years ago

A man who abducted and killed a woman he mistook as the wife of Rupert Murdoch 54 years ago has told police where he buried her body.

Nizamodeen Hosein, together with his brother Arthur, took Muriel McKay, the wide of the media magnate’s deputy, Alick McKay, to ransom for £1,000,000 at a Hertfordshire farm.

Both brothers refused to tell police where they buried her body – a secret Arthur took to his grave.

They were both convicted of kidnapping and killing McKay almost a decade later even though McKay’s body hadn’t been recovered.

Now Hosein is ready to talk. Last month, he told Muriel’s daughter Dianne McKay and her grandson Mark Dyer who flew to his native Trinidad where he hid her body at the farm near Stocking Pelham.

‘Go through the kitchen door, come through the open land, turn left and it’s two feet from the hedge, that’s where the body is,’ he told them, SkyNews, which filmed the meeting, reported.

Muriel was mistaken by the brothers for Rupert Murdoch’s wife (Picture: PA)

Now it’s understood Housein said the same thing to Met Police detectives who flew to the Caribbean island this week.

Detective Superinterdentent Katherine Goodwin told McKay’s family: ‘He was happy to speak with us and we will hopefully continue to interview him over the next few days.

‘We are making progress working with the local police.’

Goodwin hopes to get enough evidence to launch a new search of the farm.

The Housein brothers broke into Muriel and Alick’s home in Wimbledon, south London, on December 29, 1969.

They had mistaken Murel for Anna Mudrock as Murdock had loaned the McKays his Rolls Royce.

Arthur Hosein, left, died in prison in 2009, while his brother Nizamodeen is alive and living in Trinidad (Picture: Bettmann Archive)

Alick returned from work to find the front door unlocked, the house phone ripped from the wall and the house empty.

Only hours later after the phone line was reconnected, the brothers called the house identifying themselves as ‘M3’ and over the next 40 days reportedly phoned and sent letters to Alick demanding the ransom money.

Arthur, who owned Rooks Farm, and his younger brother Nizamodeen were arrested on February 7, 1970.

With Muriel’s body not found, the McKays reached out to Nizamodeen, who would claim he did not kill her but she died of a heart attack.

The brothers, he said, hid her body under a large ding heap behind the farm.

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