2024 Search
Below, are the details of the 2024 search and its outcomes, including personal recounts by the McKay family.
Jan, 2024
Face to Face Kidnapper Meeting
- Dianne McKay and her son Mark Dyer flew to Trinidad to meet Nizamodeen Hosein, face to face.
- This meeting for Dianne McKay was a shock, as physically meeting the man who killed her mother was surreal.
- In the meeting, the family discussed and presented Nizamodeen Hosein various up to date images of the farm, comparing them to old images from the time of the kidnapping.
- This allowed Nizamodeen Hosein to better pinpoint where he and his brother, Arthur Hosein, buried Muriel McKay's body.
Feb, 2024
Providing Evidence to the MET Police
- Upon returning from Trinidad, the McKay family now had a vast array of new case material to aid the MET police to find Muriel McKay's missing body.
- Mark Dyer met with The MET, who were very pleased and positive on the accomplishments the McKay family had made to uncover the facts.
- The MET agreed to the findings and wanted to get a warrant to search the farm.
- The MET also agreed to use the barrister Matthew Gayle in Trinidad, in order to help facilitate any future face-to-face meetings.
Mar, 2024
MET Police's Poor Takeover
- The MET Police decided that they needed to go to Trinidad, in order to formalise the evidence that the McKay Family had submitted.
- It's worth noting that the McKay family had already conducted the same evidence gathering exercise under the eyes of a reputable Barrister (Matthew Gayle) appointed by the McKay Family, in Trinidad.
- Matthew Gayle and the McKay family helped to set everything up for the meeting between the McKay Family, Met Police and Nizamodeen Hosein; helping to ensure that Nizamodeen Hosein was comfortable with all the steps to ensure his safety and wellbeing in Trinidad whilst working with The Met Police.
- After things were all ready to go, The MET Police began ignoring all of the McKay Family's and Matthew Gayle's correspondence.
- Behind the scenes, The MET Police decided it would be best not to take the McKay Family or Matthew Gayle with them, whom Nizamodeen Hosein already had a rapport with.
- The MET had texted Mark Dyer 4-days after the last ignored correspondence, saying that The MET are in Trinidad and that the McKay Family and Matthew Gayle should not come.
- Matthew Gayle quickly caught wind of the dishonest Met Police operation and rushed to Nizamodeen Hosein's home — where he was then told by a neighbour that Nizamodeen Hosein had been taken by local Trinidad police, accompanied by a group of unidentified "white men".
- The McKay's family team rushed to the local Trinidad police station, to find Nizamodeen Hosein left traumatised by The MET, who were pictured through the window at the police station, both UK police officers who have had zero rapport with Nizamodeen Hosein.
Mar, 2024
MET Police's Return to the UK
- After the MET Police's 5-day visit, they returned to the UK and landed at Gatwick Airport — where they met Muriel McKay's grandson, Mark Dyer, who was anxiously waiting at the airport upon learning that the MET Police were arriving back that day.
- Mark Dyer witnessed several police officers exiting the airport.
- The MET then invited Mark Dyer for an interview at the airport, saying that Nizamodeen Hosein didn't cooperate, had the same story and was very 'wishy-washy'.
- Mark Dyer anxiously explained that the MET Police had destroyed 3-years of hard work and rapport building that the McKay family had built, by blindly going into a meeting without their support, leaving Nizamodeen Hosein, a man who spent his life in UK prison, alienated and traumatized.
Jun, 2024
2024 Search of the Farm
- The MET Police finally responds to the McKay family — telling Mark Dyer that the MET Police are planning another search.
- The MET imposed many conditions on this new search, one of which stated that Dianne McKay could not be present at a search. We think this was due to Dianne McKay previously raising a formal complaint, when The MET went to Trinidad without the McKay family and ruined the rapport with Nizamodeen Hosein.
- The MET did not get a warrant for the search they wanted to conduct (even though it was promised during the LBC interview), this severely limited the areas that the MET Police could search. We now believe that this was purposely not obtained; as if they got a warrant, the MET Police would look worse if they had found the body, missing it twice before — than not finding the body at all.
- The MET tried to force the McKay family to enter into an agreement which would restrict them from ever coming back to the farm. This agreement was never signed or agreed. (link)
- Mark Dyer was the only McKay family member invited to the pre-search meeting with The MET Police, where The MET presented a PowerPoint presentation.
- The presentation showed a CGI of areas that the McKay Family wanted to search based on what Nizamodeen Hosein had informed them — however, at the meeting Ian Marsh (the farm owner) did not like this and walked out of the meeting.
- The MET at this time also wrote a letter to the McKay family stating that they would welcome Nizamodeen Hosein to the farm if he came on his own. (link)
- Ian McKay, Muriel McKay's son, showed up at the search (and was welcomed), however, The MET kept stating if Dianne McKay came "we're all off".
- Nothing was found in this search, as there was no warrant and the farm owner Ian Marsh objected to certain areas being searched.
Nov & Dec, 2024
- The MET, Mark Dyer, Dianne McKay and others met at Mark Dyer's office. The MET Police wanted to say that they were taking a step back from the case as there was nowhere for them to go.
- The McKay family were not happy with this, as the search that the MET Police had conducted was improper, without a warrant, leading to significant areas of the search being missed.
- In December, Ian McKay went to Trinidad to meet Nizamodeen Hosein face-to-face, to get more insight and discuss the recent search with him.
- The McKay family were not happy with this, as the search that The MET Police had conducted was improper, without a warrant, leading to significant areas of the search being missed. It came to light that an area which was allegedly part of the 2022 search, was not in fact searched, despite The MET assuring the family that it had been.