Search for remains of abduction victim

POLICE ACT ON NEW EVIDENCE IN CASE OF 1969 KIDNAPPING

FURTHER searches for the remains of a woman who was kidnapped for ransom more than 54 years ago are to be carried out at a Hertfordshire farm, the Metropolitan Police has said.

Muriel McKay, the wife of a newspaper executive, was kidnapped in London and held ransom for £1 million by a pair who had mistaken her for Anna Murdoch, the then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Ms McKay, 55, was the wife of Mr Murdoch's deputy, Alick McKay, who, like Mr Murdoch, was Australian.

She disappeared in December 1969 and was traced to Stocking Farm, near Bishop's Stortford, but her body was never found and brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein were convicted of her kidnap and murder.