Specialist teams searching a farm where Muriel McKay was held hostage and murdered 55 years ago have failed to find her body.

Mrs McKay was mistaken for the then-wife of newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch when she was kidnapped, taken to the farm in Hertfordshire and killed in 1969.

A fresh search of the site by the Met Police started last week.

On Monday, the Times and Sky reported that the force had written to her relatives confirming that no remains or evidence relating to the kidnap and murder had been found.

The search took place after Mrs McKay’s daughter and grandson persuaded police to carry out a third dig, when Nizamodeen Hosein, one of two brothers convicted for the crime, told them where he put the body.

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