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.

A High Court judge ruled on Tuesday that the family cannot perform a radar scan of a shared back garden in east London where they believe she is buried.

Ms McKay, the wealthy wife of newspaper executive Alick McKay, was kidnapped for a £1 million ransom in 1969 after being mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

On Monday, barristers for two of her children, Ian McKay and Dianne 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 ga

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