Muriel McKay, 55, died after a bungled kidnap by two brothers and her family have won a legal battle allowing them to apply for an injunction to search a shop linked to the Kray twins

A woman murdered 55 years ago was today officially declared dead, paving the way for the family to carry out a fresh search for her remains.

Muriel McKay , 55, died after a bungled kidnap by two brothers who mistook her for Anna Murdoch, wife of Australian media tycoon Rupert. Nizamodeen and Arthur Hosein , then 22 and 34, were jailed for life for Muriel's 1969 murder. But her body has never been found.

Nizamodeen, 78, allegedly told her family's lawyer that he buried her on the Hertfordshire farm where they held her captive, but a search of the area in 2022 found nothing. Now the children of the noto

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