The wife of a Murdoch executive has been missing since the Sixties – will her body now be found?

When kidnappers broke into the home of Alick McKay in 1969, they thought they were abducting Rupert Murdoch’s wife Anna. Instead, they took Muriel McKay, the wife of one of Murdoch’s executives, who was never seen again. As police confirm a date to dig for her remains, David James Smith asks if her family might now finally find out the truth about this mysterious crime

Rupert Murdoch, Muriel McKay and Nizamodeen Hosein (PA/Shutterstock/Getty)

Earlier this year, Dianne McKay, who is in her eighties, was preparing to fly to London from her home in Majorca and then join her son Mark Dyer on the plane to Port of Spain, Trinidad. Once there they would finally come face to face with the only man left alive who knows the truth about what happened to Dianne’s mother, Muriel McKay. 

More than 50 years ago, Muriel was abducted from her Wimbledon home. She was never seen alive again and her body has never been found. Two brothers were convicted of her murder and only one of them, Nizamodeen Hosein, is still alive – now released from prison and living back home in Trinidad.

Finally, he agreed to meet the family of the woman he killed and, for the first time, reveal where her body is buried. Packing and preparing for a journey that was as emotionally challenging as it was physically demanding, Dianne told me: “I have people in my family who are saying, ‘Why do you believe him, he’s lied all these years’. But I just say this is how I feel, and this is what I want to do. It’s about my mother – what would you do if it was your mother?”