Muriel McKay ‘would like to come home’ as family bid to scan garden for remains

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The grandson of a woman who was kidnapped and killed more than 55 years ago has said “she would like to come home for Christmas” after the High Court heard her family believes her remains are in an east London back garden.

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00:00And for once he told the truth. And that set in train a catalogue of events that now we're in.

00:09Where we went to search the farms, he said he left her there.

00:13And now to have the Fraser family come forward, who tried to, two years ago, come forward to us directly and say,

00:22my father gave us information about where your brother is. And you need to go and check.

00:31Because before he died, he wanted us to have this information to give it to you.

00:35And they've put themselves in the line of fire, but no benefit. No benefit to them.

00:41And they've flown under their own steam from Israel today to be here. The whole family.

00:47No one's paid for them to be here. And I think they're incredibly brave people.

00:52And to come and show us where Muriel Mackay, my grandmother, is probably hidden.

01:01Muriel Mackay, the wealthy wife of newspaper executive Alec Mackay,

01:07was kidnapped for a £1 million ransom in 1969 after being mistaken for Anna Murdoch,

01:13the then-wife of another media mogul, Rupert Murdoch.

01:1855-year-old Miss Mackay was taken from her home in Wimbledon on the 29th of December 1969.

01:26Brothers Arthur and Niza Modine Hussain were later arrested and found guilty of her murder

01:33in what was one of the first murder cases to be bought without a body, as it was never found.

01:40On Monday, barristers for two of Miss Mackay's children, Ian Mackay and Diane Levinson,

01:47asked a judge to order that the homeowners of two neighbouring properties on Bethnal Green Road

01:55allow the family to conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey of a shared back garden,

02:02where her family believes Muriel Mackay's remains lie.

02:07The courts heard on Monday that the injunction bid came after the family received new information from a woman called Haley Frey.

02:16Miss Frey had claimed that her father said on his deathbed that he noticed a strong smell at the premises

02:25at the time of Miss Mackay's disappearance.

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