Murdered Mother's Remains Possibly Found Behind Betting Shop

In a shocking development, police have acknowledged that murdered mother Muriel McKay may be buried behind a betting shop in East London. McKay was abducted in December 1969 by Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, who had mistaken her for the wife of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

The family has been pursuing a lead from an East End tailor, Percy Chaplin, who made a deathbed confession that McKay's body was secretly moved from the farm where she was held and killed, and then reburied in the garden of his shop in Bethnal Green. Chaplin's children reported this information to police in 2023, but the authorities did not inform the McKay family at the time.

Now, in a letter to McKay's son, a detective superintendent has admitted that Arthur Hosein had a connection to the premises and likely had access during the relevant time period. The officer also confirmed that a "smell" could indicate the presence of human remains, though no disturbed soil was reported. Despite this, police have refused to issue a warrant to allow the family to use ground-penetrating radar to search the garden.

The McKay family has been searching for Muriel's remains for over 50 years, with previous excavations at the Hertfordshire farm where she was held proving fruitless. They are now pursuing legal action to gain access to the Bethnal Green property, determined to uncover the truth about this decades-old cold case.