A new development has emerged in the case of Muriel McKay, who was kidnapped and murdered 55 years ago, as shared by her family. Mark Dyer, Mrs. McKay’s grandson, disclosed the discovery of a nine-inch bone today, noting that it appeared to have been cut with a weapon or machinery. A forensic team from the Metropolitan Police arrived on Friday to examine the bone, which measures a couple of inches wide.
The bone was found approximately one meter deep in the backyard of a betting shop on Bethnal Green Road in Hackney, East London. The Metropolitan Police stated that they are investigating the discovery of the bone in the garden of a property on Bethnal Green Road and are working to determine its origin.
Mark Dyer expressed hope for a resolution to the family’s long-standing mystery and the interest of those following their story. The search was prompted by claims from the children of Percy Chaplin, a former tailor for the Kray Twins, who suspected Mrs. McKay was buried in the yard of his former shop where Arthur Hosein, one of the brothers responsible for Mrs. McKay’s murder, had worked.
Both Arthur and Nizamodeen were sentenced to life in prison for the murder after a failed kidnapping where they mistakenly targeted Muriel McKay, thinking she was the wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Despite Nizamodeen’s claim that he buried her on a farm in Hertfordshire, a search in 2022 yielded no results.
Mrs. McKay was abducted from her Wimbledon home on December 29, 1969. Details from a police statement archived at the National Archives revealed that Nizamodeen mentioned visiting Percy Chaplin, the tailor on Bethnal Green Road, on the day of the crime. The McKay family attempted to scan the site, now occupied by flats and a bookmaker, with radar but were denied access by the property owners, leading them to pursue legal action for scanning permissions.