The 1982 police searches for a vanished “prim and proper” farmer’s wife whose husband is accused of murdering and dumping her in a septic tank were delayed for 24 hours, a court has heard.
Retired “gentleman farmer” David Venables, 89, is said by prosecutors to have “got away with murder” for nearly 40 years by allegedly disposing of his wife Brenda Venables, shortly after rekindling a “long-standing affair”.
