A Trinidad and Tobago man who served 20 years in a British prison for the kidnapping and murder of an Australian woman in 1969, has finally offered to reveal where the body was buried.
Nizamodeen Hosein, 75, was deported to T&T after serving his sentence for the murder of Muriel McKay, 55, whom he mistook for the wife of Australian-born American business magnate Rupert Murdoch.
Hosein, who now lives in Couva, instead murdered the wife of Murdoch’s deputy Alick McKay.
His brother Arthur, who was jointly charged with the crime, died at a psychiatric facility in England in 2009.
McKay had been held for a £1 million ransom but then disappeared, and her body was never discovered.
It was suspected she had been fed to pigs on a Hertfordshire farm owned by the brothers.
A report carried by Sky News yesterday revealed that Hosein has been in touch with McKay’s daughter Dianne, 82, and has offered to return to the UK to show her where he buried her mother’s body.
He has also written to the British Home Office to lift a deportation order that still bars him from travelling to the United Kingdom.
In the letter, part of which was carried by the Sky News, Hosein said, “I admit my involvement in the kidnap and death of Muriel McKay, and I have been attempting to assist her daughter Dianne in locating her body. I believe I am the only living person who knows where Muriel’s body is and would like her body to be found before I myself die.”
A Home Office spokesperson told Sky News, “We express sympathies with Muriel McKay’s loved ones. While we do not comment on individual cases, we work with the police on any requests pertaining to ongoing investigations.”
Scotland Yard reopened the case in 2021, prompted by information provided to McKay’s relatives by Nizamodeen.
Speaking to Guardian Media in January 2022, Hosein said the McKay family’s attorney, Matthew Gayle, had visited him in Trinidad back in December 2021.
“We spoke about so many things, so it is difficult now to remember because I never recorded it, and it wasn’t a visit to be recorded; it was a social visit,” he told Guardian Media back then.
Hosein had said he remembered speaking to Diane via a Zoom link during one of Gayle’s visits.
“I don’t know how to describe that...shocking, heartfelt, I felt a very deep emotion inside. If it were my mom, I would feel the same way.”
Asked then if he remembered how Muriel died, Nizamodeen said he did not want to revisit that memory.
In March 2022, police carried out “an extensive search for Muriel’s remains” at Stocking Farm, formerly called Rooks Farm, at Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire.
The Metropolitan Police said the search “concluded unsuccessfully”.
