The daughter of Muriel McKay, who was kidnapped and murdered more than 55 years ago and whose remains have never been found, said the Metropolitan Police “don’t want to know” about her mother’s case.
00:00When you make an application like this, it often is, it often can fail, but if we succeeded, it would have been a two or three hour scan this week with Hayley present, which we wanted because she's made her way with her family over from Israel to support us and help us with the compelling information she has.
00:23Muriel McKay, the wealthy wife of newspaper executive Alec McKay, was kidnapped for a £1 million ransom in 1969 after being mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the then wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
00:39On Monday, barristers for two of her children, Ian McKay and Diane Levinson, asked a judge to order that the homeowners of two neighbouring properties on Bethnal Green Road allow them to conduct a ground penetrating radar survey of a shared back garden.
01:00Brothers Arthur and Niza Modine Hussain were found guilty of Miss McKay's murder and sentenced to 25 years and 15 years in prison in one of the first murder cases to be bought without a body.
01:15The court heard on Monday that the injunction bid came after the family received new information from a woman called Hayley Frey, whose father ran a tailor shop at the premises on Bethnal Green Lane at the time of the killing, where Arthur Hussain was employed.
01:36Benjamin Wood, for Mr McKay and Miss Levenson, said Miss Frey had claimed that her father said on his deathbed that he noticed a strong smell at the premises at the time of Miss McKay's disappearance.
01:53However, a High Court judge ruled on Tuesday that the family cannot perform a radar scan of this shared back garden.
02:03And myself and Ian went down on a very hot summer's day in June, when Ian came from Australia and managed to meet one of the tenants of the lady in question.
02:13We had a chat in the street, very pleasant chat, and I think I asked if I could move under the shade, because I've got a bald head, it was 88 degrees.
02:23And I'd been in the sun for like 40 minutes, and that was when I was accused of stepping in a hallway.
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