Murderer to face parole listening to regardless of by no means saying the place he hid spouse’s physique

Murderer Glyn Razzell is ready to face a public parole listening to – regardless of by no means reavling the place he hid his spouse’s physique.

The now 63-year-old was discovered responsible of murdering his estranged spouse Linda in 2003. He was sentenced to life in jail.

Razzell was one of many first prisoners to be affected by Helen’s Law. The change in laws was designed to make it more durable for murderers to use for parole in the event that they refuse to disclose the place they hid their sufferer’s physique.

Mother-of-four Mrs Razzell disappeared on her strategy to work at Swindon College in Wiltshire in March 2002 and no hint of her physique has ever been discovered.

Her husband was convicted based mostly on bloodstains discovered within the boot of the automotive he drove the day of her disappearance however he has at all times maintained his innocence and even helped participate in appeals for her to go residence. In October 2021, he was refused parole below the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act 2020, which was dubbed Helen’s Law after insurance coverage clerk Helen McCourt, who vanished on her method residence from work in 1988.

Razzell has remained in an open jail, which is the place the listening to shall be held on Thursday, with a dwell stream to a public gallery on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. He opposed requests for a public listening to however the sufferer’s household’s needs for proceedings to not be held in personal have been granted.

Razzell is ready to hitch spouse killer Russell Causley and infamous prisoner Charles Bronson as one of many first inmates in UK authorized historical past to have their case heard in public after guidelines have been modified final 12 months in a bid to take away the secrecy across the proces.

The Parole Board stated it obtained quite a lot of representations over why the case ought to be heard in public – together with that Razzell is without doubt one of the few prisoners to fall below Helen’s Law and the excessive stage of public curiosity within the matter.

Razzell and his spouse have been embroiled in divorce proceedings when she went lacking. His trial was informed he confronted a monetary settlement he was not ready to just accept.

The courtroom additionally heard how Mrs Razzell left her residence within the village of Highworth, close to Swindon, at 8.45am on March 19 along with her kids and boyfriend Greg Worrall. She dropped off her boyfriend in Highworth and her kids at college earlier than being seen parking for work in Alvescot Road, as common.

She is believed to have taken her common route down an alleyway in the direction of the school and her cellphone was present in a recess of the alleyway the following day throughout a police search. Her boyfriend contacted police on the night of her disappearance after she failed to select up her kids from their after-school membership.