Police reopen case 51 years after the murder of Muriel McKay

The Metropolitan Police has reopened the case of a lady who was kidnapped from her residence in Wimbledon on December 29, 1969. 

Muriel McCay was kidnapped by Nizamodeen and Arthur Hosein who thought that they had taken the spouse of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. 

As a substitute of kidnapping the then 25-year-old Anna Murdoch, they kidnapped the spouse of Murdoch’s deputy Alick McCay. 

Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her Wimbledon residence on December 29, 1969 after she was mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the 25-year-old spouse of media tycoon Rupert, and later died

Muriel McKay’s household (pictured in January 1970) are pressuring the police to excavate the farmhouse the place she is believed to been buried in a bid to search out her stays

Nizmodeen Hosein protested he had not killed McKay, sustaining as a substitute that she had collapsed and later died from a coronary heart assault whereas sitting downstairs within the farmhouse (pictured)

The Hosein brothers have been convicted of her homicide however police haven’t but been in a position to get well her physique. 

Nizamodeen has approached Mrs McCay’s household to inform them the place the physique was buried. 

Now the Metropolitan Police has confirmed it’s reviewing the case. 

A Scotland Yard spokesman advised MailOnline: ‘The Met have been contacted in December 2021 by the household of Muriel McKay concerning info that they had obtained in relation to her homicide.

‘Officers from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command have met with the household and are within the strategy of reviewing all the fabric.’

In accordance with The Occasions, detectives travelled at present to the Nationwide Archives in Kew to retrieve the unique case information. 

Nizmodeen mentioned: ‘On the farmhouse there is a wood gate, there’s a couple of wood gates, it has barn beside, barn beside, and ten foot ahead, ten foot this facet [left], the physique’s someplace round there’

Nizamodeen (proper) and Arthur Hosein (left) have been convicted of her homicide although police by no means recovered McKay’s physique

Nizamodeen claimed no violence was used in the course of the abduction. He mentioned Mrs McCay dropped useless when she watched a information report on the kidnapping.  

He and his brother demanded £1 million for the protected return of Mrs McCay. 

The pair have been sentenced to life imprisonment following a trial in 1970. The brothers have been among the many first folks to be convicted of homicide regardless of the absence of a physique. 

Nisamadoeen has knowledgeable the household that Mrs McCay’s stays have been buried on an 11-acre Hertfordshire farm.   

The Occasions reported that the farm’s present house owners haven’t allowed the household to deploy specialist floor penetrating radar on the web site.  

Relying on the proof, the Met Police might resolve to launch a seek for Mrs McCay’s stays. 

Her daughter Dianne McCay mentioned: ‘We’re happy the police are taking it severely. We have now labored onerous for the previous few months to get this far and we simply wish to get on with it.

‘It’s very irritating as a result of we’ve talked about nothing else, and now Nizam advised us the place he buried my mom and now we’ve to cease and wait. It’s very troublesome.

‘Christmas was painful as a result of that was when she was taken. The entire of Christmas and new yr interval is at all times extraordinarily delicate for us as it’s the anniversary of the final time we noticed one another plus the horror of what occurred subsequent.’

Mrs McCay’s daughter mentioned there are specific protocols which have to be adopted though the usage of the bottom penetrating radar is kind of easy.  

Nizmodeen, 75, has now revealed the positioning the place McKay was buried to a lawyer representing her household placing police beneath stress to excavate the positioning in a bid to search out her stays.

He additionally claimed McKay died from a coronary heart assault whereas watching a information report of her kidnapping two days after the 40-day ransom ordeal started.

He made the confession after being tracked down in Trinidad by documentary makers protecting the story in August this yr, regardless of sustaining his innocence.

The pair claimed they have been harmless however Arthur’s fingerprints have been discovered on the ransom notes and a pocket book crammed with the identical paper that Muriel’s letters have been written on have been found on the web site.

Nizmodeen advised Matthew Gayle, a British barrister in Trinidad employed by the household, that he wished ‘closure’ earlier than he died and so would reveal the situation of McKay’s physique.

He mentioned: ‘On the farmhouse there is a wood gate, there’s a couple of wood gates, it has barn beside, barn beside, and ten foot ahead, ten foot this facet [left], the physique’s someplace round there.

Nizmodeen (above), 75, has now revealed the positioning the place McKay was buried to a lawyer representing her household

‘Subsequent to the barbed wire fence, about three foot [from the fence].’

Muriel was kidnapped after the brothers tailed a chauffeured Rolls Royce belonging to Murdoch that was on mortgage to her husband Alick McKay.

She was kidnapped within the brothers’ Volvo and brought to Rooks Farm, the place they lived with Arthur’s spouse and youngsters, who have been on vacation on the time.

Newspaper govt McKay returned residence to search out the phone ripped off the wall, the contents of his spouse’s purse strewn over the corridor.

He later acquired a name from a person demanding £1 million — equal to £20 million at present — if Muriel was to be returned alive, sparking the UK’s first high-profile, kidnap-for-ransom case.

Over the 40-day ordeal the brothers, who claimed to be a mafia group referred to as M3, despatched three letters and made 18 additional calls demanding the cash.

In addition they despatched McKay’s husband 5 letters allegedly written by Muriel, together with one during which she mentioned she was chilly and blindfolded, as proof of life.

Two makes an attempt by police to ship faux notes to the abductors failed however the second attempt led officers to Rook’s Farm, the place Muriel was taken by the brothers.

Nizmodeen advised the lawyer he was the one one that buried McKay, refusing to implicate his brother Arthur who was additionally convicted for her homicide.

He additionally protested he had not killed McKay, sustaining as a substitute that she had collapsed and later died from a coronary heart assault whereas sitting downstairs within the farmhouse.

‘This may ceaselessly hang-out me for the remainder of my days,’ Nizmodeen mentioned, including he had fed ‘fried rice’ to McKay after kidnapping her. His brother Arthur died in jail in 2009.