Police have searched the Hertfordshire farm for the remains of Muriel McKay (Picture: PA)
The search for the remains of Muriel McKay who was murdered 55 years ago has been called off.
Nizamodeen Hosein, with his brother Arthur, abducted and killed Ms McKay after he mistook her as the wife of Rupert Murdoch.
They took her to a Stocking Farm, then known as Rooks Farm, in Hertfordshire to ransom for £1,000,000, but both refused to tell police where they buried her body.
Last month Hosein told Ms McKay’s daughter Dianne where he hid her body after she flew out to see him native Trinidad.
He was deported after serving 20 years in prison, while his brother Arthur died in 2009.
Hosein told them: ‘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.’
But police have revealed they have been unable to find the remains, despite Hosein’s claim.
In a letter to her 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.
Police search at the farm after the murder
(Picture: Bryan Jobson/ANL/Shutterstock)
A police search team dig in an area of Stocking Farm (Picture: Peter MacDiarmid/Shutterstock)
‘I appreciate that this will be devastating for you, especially after all the work you have put in to trying to find her.
‘As you can imagine there is a lot of detail in terms of the search which I can’t set out here, so I will be happy to arrange a meeting later in the week to discuss in more detail.’
Her family have insisted Hosein should be brought to the excavation site to show where he buried the body.
The family have also claimed police admitted to them they forgot to dig part of an excavation site at the farm in 2022.
Nizamodeen Hosein (Picture: PA)
Officers searching a barn (Picture: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)
The Housein brothers broke into Muriel and Alick’s home in Wimbledon, south London, on December 29, 1969.
They had mistaken Muriel for Anna Mudroch as they had loaned the McKays his Rolls Royce.
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.
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