It couldn't be simpler and it takes seconds - simply click here OR here, enter your email address and follow the instructions. Moss was described as being killed in an "execution-type" manner, with Docherty-Puncheon shooting him in the head, then cutting up his body and burning it in an incinerator. That is hard to think about, she says. 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. Stocking Pelham is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. Pelham, MA Massachusetts murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto thefts, arson, law enforcement employees, police officers, crime map . Docherty-Puncheon is already serving a life sentence for the murder of Fred Moss, 21, in late 2004. The court heard that at the time of his death, Col Workman had a woman carer who visited him every day. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Muriel McKay, 55, was kidnapped from her Wimbledon home on 29 December 1969 and held at a remote farm in Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire. Their three adult children, Jennifer, Diane and Ian, also lived in the United Kingdom. A 52-year-old murder case has received some fresh evidence after one of the killers has revealed where they buried the body. An 83-year-old retired Army officer was killed by a single shotgun blast after answering a knock on his cottage front door, St Albans Crown Court has heard. Mr Latham said the defendant's uncle had discovered a sawn off shotgun in the defendant's Range Rover prior to the killing of Col Workman. 1:25. I think it has a lot to do with coming to the end of his life and wanting to do the right thing, she says. 'He very much sympathises with the family and hope they can find closure over this tragedy. 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. In the wake of her fathers death, Dianne had a breakdown. On 29 December 1969, assailants broke into the home and abducted McKay while her husband was at work. Prince Harry 'hated woke nonsense' and 'made jokes we are no longer allowed to make' before meeting Meghan, 'We met a Princess'! 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. 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. Police are preparing to search farmland for the remains of Muriel McKay who was kidnapped and held to ransom 53 years ago by two brothers who mistook her for Rupert Murdoch's wife. He said I reminded him of my mother too much.. Both made for unlikely kidnappers. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Media in category "Stocking Pelham" The following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total. Records show Brashers lived at an apartment now called The Park at Benito at 25 Pelham Road in Greenville. Nine months later, Trinidadian brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen known as Nizam . The two brothers had followed a chauffer-driven Rolls-Royce in December of 1969 which belonged to Mr Murdoch but it turned out he had lent it to his UK deputy, Alick McKay. The court heard Mr Docherty-Puncheon also claimed, while in prison, he had had a gay affair with Lt Col Workman.. He had older brothers who I think he was scared of., Target: Anna Murdoch with husband Rupert and Alick McKay. If you want to stay in the know with all the latest news, reviews and features from HertsLive then you can sign up to our daily newsletter email. Court documents show Duke and Samra killed the four at a home in Pelham, a Birmingham suburb, on March 23, 1997. Her body was never found and it was suspected she was fed to pigs on the 11-acre farm in Stocking Pelham, Herts, owned by Trinidad-born Arthur. Metropolitan Police officers are investigating the location of Muriel McKays remains after Nizamodeen Hosein identified the site of her grave. Small simple building of mid-C14 origin, built in flint. Prince Harry boasts about finding 'freedom and happiness' and jokes about reincarnation in unseen TV Mike Tindall's latest money-making scheme! We are no longer accepting comments on this article. It is a relief to think we may get her back soon and she died relatively quickly. [7] Upon the arrival to the phone box in Epping, M3 rang and instructed the officers to take a taxi to a used car yard with a garage in Bishop's Stortford called Gate's Garage where they were instructed to leave the cases next to a minivan that would be parked there on the garage forecourt.[7]. Hosein, then 21, has told her family she. Play it now! Inevitably, hearing news of how her mother died was distressing, not least because Nizam indicated her death came shortly after she watched Dianne, her siblings and father, on a television appeal on December 31, 1969. 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.. The investigation then shifted to the Volvo, registered in the name of a man from Rooks Farm (now known as Stocking Farm owned by De Burgh-Marsh family) near Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire . 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. . Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. Both men protested their innocence. Still, there was no trace of Muriel. The Met Police are investigating the murder of Muriel McKay, after Nizamodeen Hosein, one of her killers identified the burial site on a farm in Hertfordshire. ?1 million had been asked for. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Mr Latham said: "They are linked killings and we allege both men died at the hands of this defendant. [7], However, two successive attempts to deliver half of the money were unsuccessful. Initially, the police refused to believe she had been abducted, insisting she must have run off with a boyfriend. Hosein, who is now 75, said he held Mrs McKay, 55, captive after her abduction as part of a failed blackmailing scheme before disposing of her body on the same farm where she was held, The Mirror reports. His number plate led the police to Rooks Farm, where they discovered a notebook filled with the same paper that Muriels letters had been written on, and a set of Arthurs fingerprints matching those found on the ransom demands. Published 12:00 am Tuesday, June 15, 2004. [7] After moving to London for her husband's job as a newspaper executive for Rupert Murdoch's News Limited, they lived in St Mary's House on Arthur Road in Wimbledon, London into which they had moved in 1958 on their arrival in England. Docherty-Puncheon, who was convicted of Moss's murder in 2006, claimed his cellmates had made the confessions up. Sign up to the HertsLive newsletter below to receive all the latest stories straight to your inbox. Mr Docherty-Puncheon denies murder. Unaware of this development the Hosein brothers spent several days following the car, believing they were on the trail of Murdoch and his wife. Arthur died in Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in 2009 while Nizamodeen served 20 years and was deported to Trinidad on his release in 1990. While Murdoch and his wife Anna were on holiday in Australia, they had lent their chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce to Alick, his deputy. Certain she was dead, police charged the Hosein brothers with her murder. ", He then told the jury: "This is a whodunnit trial. I dont think that is too much to ask.. Nizamodeen Hosein has now revealed the site where McKay was buried, The farm where Muriel McKay was kept after being kidnapped, Trucker killed three in 'fireball' crash as he surfed adult sites while driving, British drug smuggler recalls violent shower attacks during 18 years in Thai prison. Justice John Saunders sentenced Docherty-Puncheon to life imprisonment, with a minimum jail term of 32 years before he can be considered for bail. He was living out a peaceful retirement in a cottage in a small village in rural Hertfordshire when his life was brutally cut short. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. 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. Hosein told a barrister hired by the McKay family he wanted closure before he died and met his maker. There is no dispute that someone murdered colonel Workman, the question is "are you sure it was this defendant?". Baffled as to why Muriel would have been targeted for such a crime, the story which emerged proved so gripping it featured in the hit West End play Ink, decades later. The brothers were given life sentences at the Old Bailey for her kidnap and murder. Building continues at the site of the Cock Inn - geograph.org.uk - 4047913.jpg. There is no suggestion or evidence that the Cock Inn was in any way under-used or no longer viable at the time of the conflagration. We asked a lot of questions and whenever we said something he thought was wrong, he was vehement about saying no. Nizam told us there was no physical violence, she was not tied up and was sitting beside him in the back seat of the car and spoke with him on the long journey to the farm. Furious motorist is fined 650 after council worker paints disabled bay around his parked car. In 2017, Kelvin MacKenzie's review of Ink, a play about the history of Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun,[16] described the portion of the play about McKay's kidnapping as its "most dramatic moment". Muriel McKay and her husband, Alick McKay, were born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She also said, I dont think youre a really bad person., It was such a relief as I always imagined that they had tied her up and thrown her in the boot that haunted me.. [14] Arthur died in 2009 in prison, whereas Nizamodeen served twenty years and was deported to Trinidad after his release. Hosein told a barrister hired by the McKay family he wanted closure before he died and met his maker. The murder was part of a failed kidnapping attempt, Sign up to our daily email newsletter for all the latest news from across the country as well as breaking news delivered direct to your inbox. Its very reassuring as I have spent all these years with a feeling of horror about what happened. [2], Based on the evidence, the Hosein brothers were arrested and sent to trial on 14 September 1970, with the prosecution led by Peter Rawlinson. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, Survivors describe 'nightmarish seconds' as trains crashed, Daily walk prevents one in 10 early deaths - study, Trump lashes out at Murdoch over vote fraud case, Finland starts construction of Russia border fence, Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran, LA agrees to pay Kobe Bryant widow almost $29m, Bieber cancels remaining Justice world tour dates. With photographs, Have you found an error with this catalogue description? He told the cellmate, who cannot be named for legal reasons, that he had killed the colonel in connection with a matter that had occurred seven years earlier, later saying that he had been paid to kill him. But Docherty-Puncheon's new cellmate, John Horn, also claimed the defendant confessed to him, this time with a different motive that involved Moss. 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. The court was told that Mr Moss was killed in 2004 and, in February 2006, the defendant was convicted of his murder and his subsequent appeal against conviction was dismissed. Published: 17:01 EST, 14 January 2022 | Updated: 04:26 EST, 16 January 2022. For me it was always a place of evil. 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. Col Robert Workman was killed at his Hertfordshire cottage in 2004, Christopher Docherty-Puncheon denies killing Col Workman. According to the prosecution, he knew Col Workman, having visited his home just months before his death to deal with a wasps nest. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. [7] Psychic Gerard Croiset, who had participated in a number of famous missing person investigations, also became involved. 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