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In 2021, it was reported that Nizamodeen had told a [[King's Counsel|QC]] that Muriel died of a [[heart attack]] shortly after the kidnapping and provided details of the location of the body at Rooks Farm.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ellery|first=Ben|title=Muriel McKay's kidnap killer reveals burial place after 51 years|newspaper=The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/muriel-mckay-s-kidnap-killer-reveals-burial-place-after-51-years-g36fj2rvb|access-date=18 December 2021|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=18 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218082243/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/muriel-mckay-s-kidnap-killer-reveals-burial-place-after-51-years-g36fj2rvb|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2023, Nizamodeen asked to be allowed back to the UK to show the McKay family where he buried Muriel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Muriel McKay: Deported killer offers to return to UK to show victim's family where body is buried |url=https://news.sky.com/story/muriel-mckay-deported-killer-offers-to-return-to-uk-to-show-victims-family-where-body-is-buried-13008767 |access-date=17 November 2023 |website=Sky News |archive-date=17 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117012436/https://news.sky.com/story/muriel-mckay-deported-killer-offers-to-return-to-uk-to-show-victims-family-where-body-is-buried-13008767 |url-status=live }}</ref> Muriel's daughter Diane urged the [[Metropolitan Police]] to co-operate to help the recovery of her mother's body.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 December 2023 |title=Muriel McKay's daughter urges Met to let mother's killer find body |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67589313 |access-date=2 December 2023 |archive-date=2 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202112029/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67589313 |url-status=live }}</ref> In January 2024, Muriel's daughter and grandson met with Nizamodeen in Trinidad to ask him for the truth about the location of Muriel's body.<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 January 2024 |title=Muriel McKay: Family comes face-to-face with grandmother's killer |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68107010 |access-date=29 January 2024 |work=BBC News |archive-date=29 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129201233/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68107010 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Daughter of Muriel McKay meets her mother's killer in Trinidad |url=https://news.sky.com/video/daughter-of-muriel-mckay-meets-her-mothers-killer-in-trinidad-13059170 |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Sky News |language=en |archive-date=29 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129194309/https://news.sky.com/video/daughter-of-muriel-mckay-meets-her-mothers-killer-in-trinidad-13059170 |url-status=live }}</ref>
A book about the case, [https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/a-desperate-business/ A Desperate Business: The Murder of Muriel McKay] by [[Simon Farquhar]] was published in 2022. It contained interviews with surviving witnesses (including Nizamodeen Hosein) and extensive use of documents previously not in the public domain, as well as proposing a possible solution to the case. Farquhar pointed out the improbabilities and inconsistencies in Hosein's accounts, describing a conversation with him as like "trying to do a jigsaw puzzle by satellite link", and Hosein himself backtracked on the confession a few days later, claiming that it was now so long ago that he could not identify the burial site, saying "They charged me for demanding a million pounds. Tell Scotland Yard if they have four million they can come talk to me but otherwise don't bother."<ref>{{cite web |title=Scotland Yard reopens 52-year-old murder case involving two Trinidad men |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8UsN7jS5R0 |website=[[CNC3|CNC3 Television]] |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=31 July 2024 |date=17 January 2022}}</ref>
Nizamodeen supposedly signed a £40,000 contract with the McKay family to reveal where Muriel is buried. He then turned down the money and pointed out on a map where she is buried.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/muriel-mckay-convicted-killer-signed-50-000-contract-with-victims-family-to-reveal-what-happened-to-her-body-13018581|title=Muriel McKay: Convicted killer signed £40,000 contract with victim's family to reveal what happened to her body|website=Sky News|accessdate=9 March 2024}}</ref> He revealed to Mark Dyer, Muriel's grandson, his involvement in the kidnap and her burial location in an [[affidavit]] dated 11 December 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ellery |first=Ben |date=9 March 2024 |title=Muriel McKay's family to give police 'credible' evidence from killer |newspaper=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/muriel-mckays-family-to-give-police-credible-evidence-from-killer-wbnspnxgf |access-date=9 March 2024 |language=en |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
In January 2024, the [[Home Office]] refused Nizamodeen's return to the UK to supposedly identify the spot where he buried Muriel. Diane McKay and Mark Dyer then flew to Trinidad on 27 January 2024 with ''[[The Times]]'' (a Murdoch outlet) and [[Sky News]] to interview Nizamodeen over the course of two days. They claim that Nizamodeen disclosed exactly where Muriel was buried and asked to come to the UK to show where.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Muriel McKay death: Met Police will fly to Caribbean to interview killer in search for victim's remains |url=https://news.sky.com/story/muriel-mckay-death-met-police-will-fly-to-caribbean-to-interview-killer-in-search-for-victims-remains-13070342 |access-date=9 March 2024 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref> On 9 March, Katherine Goodwin of [[Scotland Yard]] told ''The Times'' that investigators decided to visit Nizamodeen in Trinidad with a view to bringing him back to England.<ref name="auto"/> Hosein said he would show police the location of Muriel's body.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 March 2024 |title=Muriel McKay killer says he will show where body is buried |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68514150 |access-date=9 March 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Mark Dyer was contacted by Scotland Yard on Thursday 16 May, confirming that they would search Rooks Farm within six weeks.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ellery |first1=Ben|last2=Gair|first2=Kieran|date=17 May 2024 |title=Muriel McKay: police to begin fresh search for body |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/muriel-mckay-kidnapping-death-police-search-remains-wc2x2qlpp |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref> On 20 June 2024, Mark Dyer met with Katherine Goodwin at Stocking Farm with a view to agree the search area. The search started on 15 July 2024 with the Met allowing between a week and 10 days for this. The search area was three times the original search area as reported in ''The Times''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-will-dig-at-farm-where-muriel-mckays-killer-says-she-is-buried-vfv58ft57|title=Muriel McKay murder: police confirm date of new dig for remains|work=The Times|first=Ben|last=Ellery|date=20 June 2024|access-date=22 July 2024}}</ref> On 22 July 2024, it was announced that the search had been unsuccessful and no remains had been recovered.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.
Reflecting on the July 2024 search, Simon Farquhar said that the consequences of what he called Nizamodeen's misinformation were not just "exasperating" but "sinister" and that Nizamodeen had
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