Murderer denied parole after refusing to reveal whereabouts of dead wife's body

26 September 2023 , 15:41

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Glyn Razzell, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his estranged wife, has been refused parole (Image: PA)

Murderer Glyn Razzell has been denied parole after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of his dead wife’s body.

Razzell, 64, killed his estranged wife Linda in 2002 and was jailed the following year but her body has never been found. He has always denied her murder but was was convicted based on bloodstains found in the boot of his car that matched her DNA. He is currently serving a life sentence for her death but has appealed for a shorter sentence multiple times. His was the first test case for Helen’s Law which The Mirror campaigned for.

This law requires the parole board to "explicitly refer" to non-disclosure of victims or victims remains when deciding upon release, where the board believes they have knowledge of it. In August Razzell told the authorities he could not reveal the location of his wife’s body because he "does not know" she is dead. But the parole board poured scorn on his claims in their decision and concluded: "He has, it seems, still got something to hide."

The body of Linda Razzell has never been n found (PA)

The board’s report concluded that there was "ample evidence that Mr Razzell is capable of wholesale deceit". They added "that his wilful and deliberate withholding of the relevant information indicates that he continues to be a risk". Razzell, they said, "had done little work to address his assessed risk factors” and “that he does not acknowledge that he has any risk factors, despite overwhelming evidence".

They added: "The panel was mindful that denial of offending is not a bar to release, however, the panel was not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public." The parole board panel said it had considered Helen’s Law, which aims to make it harder for inmates to be freed until they reveal what they did with their victim’s remains, with "great care".

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The 64-year-old has already spent nearly 22 years in prison. Mrs Razzell, a 41-year-old mother-of-four from Carmarthenshire, was living in Highworth, Wiltshire, at the time she disappeared. Her fiancé Greg Worrall was working at the local Honda car factory when he was phoned to say she had not collected her children from school.

He previously said: "I said goodbye to her when she dropped me off on her way to work. And then she dropped her kids off at school. And that was our goodbye. By the end of that year we’d decided to get engaged, I bought an engagement ring and I guess she’s still wearing it."

Adam Aspinall