David Venables killed wife Brenda in 1982 and her remains were not found for decades, jurors hear.
A retired pig farmer "got away with murder" after dumping his wife's body in a septic tank while having a long-standing affair, a jury has heard.In July 2019, her remains were found in a septic tank at what had been their shared home in Kempsey, Worcestershire.
The Crown alleges Mr Venables, then 49, killed his wife and dumped her body in the septic tank in the grounds of remote Quaking House Farm, off Bestmans Lane, where the couple had lived since 1961. A police investigation failed to find any trace of Mrs Venables, he added, and "some people thought" she had died by suicide.
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