Police officers searching inside a barn at a Hertfordshire farm for the remains of Muriel McKay in July(Image: PA)

Family of woman kidnapped and murdered at farm offer to buy property for £1m to dig for her body

Tragic Muriel McKay was killed by two brothers at Stocking Farm, near Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, in 1969. Her grandson is now willing to pay more than £1million to buy the farm

06 Oct 2024, 20:59 by Martin Fricker · The Mirror

The family of a woman who was kidnapped and murdered at a farm have offered to buy the property for £1m so they can dig for her body.

Tragic Muriel McKay was killed by two brothers at Stocking Farm, near Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, in 1969. Scotland Yard spent eight days searching the site in July but it proved unsuccessful. Now Muriel’s grandson Mark Dyer is willing to pay more than £1m to buy the farm, which he described as “the most evil place on earth”.

He told the BBC it would be a “difficult thing to do” emotionally but said it was necessary for closure. Muriel’s son Ian McKay added: “All this depends on the property owner wanting to sell.

Muriel Mckay was kidnapped and murdered in 1969( Image: PA)

The search for her remains has been unsuccessful( Image: PA)

“Purchasing Rook’s Farm would be an emotional response to allow the family to properly search and hopefully seek closure.” The dig in July took place after the last surviving murderer, Nizmodeen Hosein gave information about where Muriel was buried.

Her family say the search was hampered because the killer, now living in Trinidad, was not allowed to return to the UK to assist police. Nizamodeen and his brother Arthur was given life sentences in 1970 for kidnapping and holding Muriel, 55, for a £1m ransom, before killing her.

The evil siblings wrongly believed she was the then-wife of newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch.