Muriel McKay: family offer £1 million reward to find her body
Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her Wimbledon home in 1969, and her body was never located
Last updated 12th Jun 2025
The family of a woman kidnapped 55 years ago and said to be buried on a Hertfordshire farm have issued a reward of a value of £1 million to locate her body.
Muriel McKay was kidnapped and murdered in 1969 and her body was never found.
Her family have spent decades searching for answers, leading to a fresh reward for information, should it lead them to locate her remains.
This reward is however subject to strict rules, with the reward claimant required to provide specific, verifiable and credible information that "directly results in the recovery of the bodily remains of Muriel McKay."
Muriel McKay was taken from her home in Wimbledon, south London, on December 29 by brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, who mistook her for Anna Murdoch, wife of Rupert Murdoch, who carried out business with Ms McKay's husband.
Shortly after her disappearance in 1969, police carried out an extensive search, which was unsuccessful.
Decades of work searching for answers later, Muriel McKay's family convinced the Met Police to carry out a limited search in 2022 of a specific area of the Stocking Pelham farm on which she is said to be buried, however it again proved unsuccessful.
In July, a fresh search for her body was agreed upon and carried out by the Met Police, still at Stocking Farm, this time in a slightly different area.
By the end of the agreed search timeframe set by Police, no trace of Muriel's remains was identified.
Police said this search was the third and final one, and informed the family they were not prepared to carry this investigation further.
At the time, Mark Dyer, Muriel's grandson, told Greatest Hits Radio the family was disappointed with the limited search, and Police and the Home Office's unwillingness of returning her deported killer, Nizamodeen Hosein, to assist them on the farm.
Nizamodeen Hosein's testimony, given in what he himself described as a wish for closure, detailed exactly where he had buried Muriel on the Hertfordshire farm.
In September, Mark Dyer insisted that the family would not give up, and said: "I've now established we've found someone who can produce an underground plan of everything in the one acre or one and a quarter acre plot.
"It can show us every disturbance underground and every area that would need to be pinpoint searched.
"And also these people have scanned graves so they know exactly what they're looking for. They've got the right machinery, and they're available to do it."