Convicted killer claims Swindon victim is alive and helped to frame him

Linda Razzell was in the process of getting a divorce when she went missing in March 2002. Photograph: PA

A man convicted 20 years ago of murdering his estranged wife has claimed she is still alive and conspired to plant the crucial evidence against him.

Glyn Razzell told a parole hearing – one of the first in the UK to be heard in public – that his wife, Linda Razzell, must have worked with someone to plant splashes of her blood that were found in the boot of a car he had used.