Farmer convicted of wife’s murder 40 years after hiding her body in septic tank

Pensioner David Venables, 88, arrives at Worcester Magistrates’ Court (PA)

A retired pig farmer has been found guilty of the 1982 murder of his wife, whose body was found hidden in a septic tank at their farmhouse 37 years later.

David Venables, 89, tried to blame serial killer Fred West for Brenda Venables’s murder, but was convicted by a 10-2 majority verdict on Friday.