The Wimbledon Kidnapping

The jaw-dropping story behind a case that would rewrite the police rulebook. Kidnapping was an unheard of crime in the UK. The wife of a News of the World executive, Mrs McKay, had been mistaken for Rupert Murdoch's wife and was being held for a huge ransom by the mafia - so the headlines claimed. But the following negotiation, investigation and trial of two Indo-Trinidadian brothers presented a very different version of events. Fifty years on, the search for the truth continues.