‘People who abducted him won’t get away with it in this life or the next’, says wife of man missing for over 25 years

The wife of a man missing for more than 25 years has directly appealed to people involved in his abduction to come forward with information, as ultimately they will “not get away with it — in this life or the next”.

Penny Pickard was speaking as a major search and excavation for the remains of her husband Charles Brooke Pickard continued in an area of forestry near the remote, high mountain pass of Ballaghisheen in south Kerry.

A Garda press conference in Killarney on Tuesday had heard the investigation was “very much live”.