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A woman searching for the body of her murdered mother has lain flowers at the farm where she believes she is buried.

But the farm's current owner has told her she can't scan the land for remains and must wait to see if police decide to start an official excavation for her mother who was kidnapped 53 years ago.

A man convicted of the murder of Muriel McKay claims, years after his release from prison, that she died from a heart attack and he buried her at the farm.

Muriel's daughter Dianne, 81, was with her lawyer and a radar scanning specialist on a footpath at the Hertfordshire farm when she met the landowner, who's been innocently caught up in the case.

In an exchange caught on camera, he told her: "Do not come onto my property and demand things of me. You are trespassing, other than on this footpath, but you cannot linger.

"On a human level of course I am very sympathetic, but I have a family and this my property and I don't believe it, it's as simple as that."

Muriel McKay was kidnapped for ransom from her London home in 1969 and her abductors, brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, were later convicted and jailed for her murder though her body was never found.

But recently Nizamodeen, who lives in Trinidad, told the family's lawyer he had buried Muriel on the Hertfordshire farm where the brothers were living.

He said she had been kept in the farmhouse and after several days collapsed and died from a heart attack while she was watching a TV news report of her kidnap.

Nizamodeen claimed he panicked, dug a hole behind a barn near the farmhouse and buried Muriel after wrapping her body in a coat.

The landowner told Dianne: "It's for the police to talk to him and understand if he is telling the truth. I'm not going to be able to judge."

Scotland Yard has met Muriel McKay's family, reopened its files and is analysing the brother's new statement. Detectives were expected to update the family in the next few days.

But last week Dianne tried to persuade the current farm owner to let her and a ground penetrating radar specialist scan the area indicated by the killer.

She laid flowers at what she believes is the burial site and later claimed an initial radar scan showed evidence of soil disturbance to a depth of four feet in the area indicated by Nizamodeen.

'This is something that brings some sort of finality'

Dianne said: "I cannot forgive Nizamodeen. But I can be grateful that he tells me actually what happened to my mother right from the first moment, because that has been the one thing, I mean, my mother is dead.

"I know that you can't bring her back. Even if you find her remains. My mother is the person I remember she was. But this is something that just brings some sort of finality to the whole thing."

Muriel McKay was married to newspaper executive Alick McKay, who was deputy to media baron Rupert Murdoch, then the new owner of The Sun newspaper.

The brothers mistook Muriel for Anna, the then wife of Murdoch, and drove her to the farmhouse before demanding a million pounds ransom.

The drama ended in the brothers' arrest after a bungled police operation in which a suitcase full of cash was left by a roadside but was picked up by local officers who had not been alerted.

Arthur Hosein died in Ashworth secure hospital but Nizamodeen was freed after 20 years and moved back to the Caribbean where he continued to deny knowing what happened to Muriel until approached last year by the McKays' new lawyer Matthew Gayle, who is based in Trinidad.

Mr Gayle said: "I don't know why he never said anything about a heart attack and burial. Maybe he thought without a body he wouldn't be convicted of murder, perhaps it was the influence of his brother, maybe he is old now and wants to put things right. But I believe what he has said."