A philandering pig farmer who got away with murder for 40 years will spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted of killing his wife.
David Venables, 89, murdered his wife Brenda and put her body into the septic tank of their marital home in Kempsey, Worcestershire, in May 1982.
Police, who treated her disappearance as a missing person inquiry and never searched the tank, finally found her remains when a cesspit was drained in 2019 by Andrew Venables, who had bought the farm from his uncle.
The court heard that the couple had met at a Worcester and Kidderminster Young Farmers club social in 1957 when he was 25 and she was 23.
David Venables, 89, (pictured yesterday) murdered his wife Brenda and put her body into the septic tank of their marital home in Kempsey, Worcestershire, in May 1982
Mrs Venables in the garden of Quaking House Farm, Kempsey, Worcestershire, where her body was found
They married in Brenda’s local parish church in Rushock in 1960 and the…
