The police search for the remains of murdered Muriel McKay has been called off.
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.”
Her family has been calling for Ms McKay’s convicted killer Nizamodeen Hosein to be brought to the excavation site from his Caribbean home to show detectives where he buried her body in 1970.
They believe the search cannot be completed without his presence at the farm in Hertfordshire.
According to the family, police have admitted they forgot to dig part of an agreed excavation site at the farm in 2022, when they found nothing.
That was the area that has now been searched.
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