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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Izzie Addison

Muriel McKay family remain ‘sanguine’ despite bone found in search for her remains being non-human

Muriel McKay, the affluent wife of newspaper executive Alick McKay, was abducted in 1969 for a £1 million ransom - (PA)

The search for Muriel McKay’s remains will continue after a bone unearthed in an east London garden was confirmed not to be human, her family has announced.

Mark Dyer, Ms McKay’s grandson, said her family had gone from "high back to low" since police confirmed the bone found Friday in a Bethnal Green Road garden was not human.

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