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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Margaret Davis

Convicted killer asked son to dig up mother’s body in bid to falsely clear name

Debbie Griggs, whose body was found more than 20 years after she was murdered by her husband Andrew (Kent Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A convicted killer who tried to persuade his son to dig up his own mother’s body up in a bid to falsely clear his name has been given another three years in prison.

Sailor Andrew Griggs, 62, was serving a life sentence for the murder of his pregnant wife Debbie when he asked the family member to exhume the body and take a strand of hair, with the plan of posting it back to the UK from abroad to pretend she was still alive.

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