Arthur died in prison in 2009. It was the first time a UK court had handed down a verdict of murder despite the absence of a body. To be taken from her home was bad enough but to imagine they had been cruel or violent has just been horrible., Scotland Yard said: Officers from the specialist crime command have met the family and are reviewing the material., Get weekly highlights from Mirror editor Alison Phillips direct to your email. He told us he had invited her to watch the TV news. What's he waiting for? We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. On the evening of 7 January 2004, he rang Workman's doorbell and then retreated before shooting him with a sawn-off shotgun from between three and four metres away. Researched and written by Hannah Newcomb and Erica Kelley, Original Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma Radio, 1. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1438853.html, 2. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-alnd-2_07-cv-01962/pdf/USCOURTS-alnd-2_07-cv-01962-0.pdf. A convicted murderer has been jailed for a minimum of 32 years after being found guilty of shooting dead a retired army officer in cold blood. Mrs McKay's family previously employed aground-penetrating radar specialist and presented detectives with evidence showing a disturbance in the area where Hosein said he buried her. Hosein, then 21, has told her family she collapsed and died while watching the news. After talking on the phone, Matthew met Nizam at his home and the pair connected on a video call with Dianne and her son Mark. It went down to about 5ft. For me it was always a place of evil. Five letters written by McKay and pleading for compliance were enclosed as 'proof' that she was alive, as were three pieces cut from her clothing. Two days later, a scribbled note the first of three arrived in the post in Muriels handwriting. 2011 Occupational Structure of Stocking Pelham.jpg 481 288; 26 KB. The jury did not believe either of them and both were found guilty of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Docherty-Puncheon, who was convicted of Moss's murder in 2006, claimed his cellmates had made the confessions up. At the trial it was learned that Arthur, a tailor in Hackney, was experiencing financial difficulty after buying the farm in May 1968. He claims no violence was used and Mrs McKay died from a heart attack while watching a TV news report about her kidnapping. Docherty-Puncheon is already serving a life sentence for the murder of Fred Moss, 21, in late 2004. Stocking Pelham is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. When the car stopped at the McKay home in Wimbledon the brothers understandably thought it was Murdochs home and, on that fateful Sunday when Alick was out and Muriel home alone, forced their way in, bundling her into their car. Jon Ingram Staggs Jr., 22, was convicted Monday on five counts of capital murder in the 2012 deaths of Casey Lee Cumberland, 22, Joshua Adam Smith, 22, and Simeon Gilmore, 19. I sat by the phone all night waiting for a call we knew would come.. Hosein, then 21, has told her family she. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. They were then told how hours after the shooting, but before the carer had discovered Col Workman's body, a 999 call was made from a telephone box in the nearby village of Braughing, asking for an ambulance. It was higher than in 5.2% U.S. cities. Ransom of 1,000,000 demanded from husband A B McKay, acting chairman of the News of the World organisation: body of victim never recovered. iPhone users claim Apple is trying to TRICK them into Are YOU at risk of being cancelled? The police conducted surveillance in the area and noticed that a blue Volvo sedan with a broken tail-light, bearing registration XGO 994G, and with a single occupant, slowly passed the garage four times between 8 pm and 10.30 pm. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Christopher Docherty-Puncheon, 33, from Stocking Pelham, denies the murder. Docherty-Puncheon confessed to killing Workman to two cellmates while he was on remand over a separate murder charge, describing himself to one of them as a "modern-day hitman" who killed people for money. He was wearing his pyjamas and drinking whisky. However, a local couple noticed the suitcases and became concerned. In the wake of her fathers death, Dianne had a breakdown. 2023 BBC. Something went wrong, please try again later. In the last 5 years Pelham has seen increasing violent crime and increasing property crime. I think hes been in denial for the last 50 years. December turned to January and still the family had no idea where Muriel was. 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The McKay family had moved to London 13 years earlier from their native Adelaide, Australia, because of her father Alicks job as a newspaper executive working for Rupert Murdoch. Published: 20:12 GMT, 3 February 2022 | Updated: 20:12 GMT, 3 February 2022. After the phone was repaired, at 1 am, a caller identifying himself as 'M3' (short for Mafia 3) contacted the house and demanded a 1 million ransom. Her kidnappers, brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, demanded a 1m ransom and got Muriel to write letters asking for the money to be paid, but after a bungled police operation nothing more was heard from her. Certain she was dead, police charged the Hosein brothers with her murder. Horace 'Chucky' Ross III, double murder suspect in Pelham (Source: Pelham PD) Right now, Ross is being held at the Mitchell County Jail until this case goes before a grand jury in April. Both men protested their innocence. Lt Col Robert 'Riley' Workman was found dead on his doorstep in Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire, on 7 January, 2004. [11] Jane Martinson, in her review for The Guardian, described that portion of the play as its "most uncomfortable moment". Talking on the video call, was, she admits, horrific. In a statement issued to Sky News, Mr Marsh's spokeswoman said: 'Mr Marsh is in regular conversation with the Metropolitan Police over this matter and is fully cooperating with their investigation. He was living out a peaceful retirement in a cottage in a small village in rural Hertfordshire when his life was brutally cut short. They forced their way into the McKay house in Wimbledon, south-west London, and bundled the terrified mother into a car, driving her to the Hertfordshire farm, owned by Arthur at the time. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. The brothers' physical descriptions also matched those of the men seen in the Volvo, and Arthur's fingerprints also matched those found in the ransom letters and a newspaper found in the McKay house. In 1997, the small city of Pelham, Alabama was shocked by the brutal quadruple murder of a family. Furious motorist is fined 650 after council worker paints disabled bay around his parked car. We couldnt get her, so we took Muriel instead.. 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Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Rooks Farm, which covered eleven acres and was considerably run down, was then raided by police on 7 February at 8 am. Hosein told a barrister hired by the McKay family he wanted closure before he died and met his maker. Over the next forty days, M3 made eighteen more calls, demanding to speak to either Alick, Ian, or Diane, and sent three letters (postmarked in Tottenham or Wood Green) demanding the money while repeatedly threatening to kill McKay. Two Indo-Trinidadian brothers, Arthur Hosein (34) and Nizamodeen (22), were convicted of the crimes of murder and kidnapping in September 1970. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Mr Latham said that early the next morning the carer, Josette Swanson, returned to the victim's cottage, called Cock House in The Causeway, to find him lying dead in the hallway. He was never the same again and he never got over the guilt that my mother was the one who was taken and not him, says Dianne. Unaware of this development the Hosein brothers spent several days following the car, believing they were on the trail of Murdoch and his wife. 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Banker and landowner Ian Marsh had previously denied the family access but said he would co-operate with a search of the farm if police asked him. He has a weird kind of loneliness', "Muriel McKay's kidnap killer reveals burial place after 51 years", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Muriel_McKay&oldid=1140115321, January 1970 events in the United Kingdom, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 14:32. The court heard that at the time of his death, Col Workman had a woman carer who visited him every day. The case was one of the earliest examples in the United Kingdom of a trial and conviction in a murder without a body case.[6]. Later he claimed he had worked for him on three previous occasions. Christopher Docherty-Puncheon, 33, from Stocking Pelham, was a pest controller and had recently worked at Col Workman's home, the prosecution said. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Find the editorial stock photo of Rook Farm Auction Auctioneers Assistant Derek, and more photos in the Shutterstock collection of editorial photography. In November 1987 and September 1994, Arthur unsuccessfully applied for parole. Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. [2] The aerial view of Stocking Pelham shows that the settlements are sparsely positioned from one another. It had a recorded population of 105 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in Domesday, and is listed under 7 owners in Domesday Book. According to the prosecution, he knew Col Workman, having visited his home just months before his death to deal with a wasps nest. 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