Assassin 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 Legislation. 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.
Mom-of-four Mrs Razzell disappeared on her method to work at Swindon Faculty 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 automobile he drove the day of her disappearance however he has all the time maintained his innocence and even helped participate in appeals for her to go dwelling. In October 2021, he was refused parole underneath the Prisoners (Disclosure of Data About Victims) Act 2020, which was dubbed Helen’s Legislation after insurance coverage clerk Helen McCourt, who vanished on her means dwelling from work in 1988.
Razzell has remained in an open jail, which is the place the listening to can 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 had been granted.
Razzell is ready to affix 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 had been modified final yr in a bid to take away the secrecy across the proces.
The Parole Board mentioned it obtained plenty of representations over why the case must be heard in public – together with that Razzell is among the few prisoners to fall underneath Helen’s Legislation and the excessive stage of public curiosity within the matter.
Razzell and his spouse had been embroiled in divorce proceedings when she went lacking. His trial was instructed he confronted a monetary settlement he was not ready to just accept.
The courtroom additionally heard how Mrs Razzell left her dwelling within the village of Highworth, close to Swindon, at 8.45am on March 19 along with her youngsters and boyfriend Greg Worrall. She dropped off her boyfriend in Highworth and her youngsters at college earlier than being seen parking for work in Alvescot Street, as normal.
She is believed to have taken her normal route down an alleyway in direction of the faculty 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 youngsters from their after-school membership.