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# Sian O'Callaghan murder: teacher may be Swindon suspect's other victim
## The family of a teacher who disappeared nine years ago are waiting to
discover if she was the other alleged victim of a taxi driver held over the
murder of Sian O'Callaghan.
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Glyn Razzell, right, was convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife, Linda. Her
body has never been found Photo: PA
By Gordon Rayner and John Bingham 10:29PM GMT 25 Mar 2011
Linda Razzell, 41, went missing on her way to work in March 2002 in Swindon, a
short drive from the nightclub where Miss O'Callaghan was last seen a week
ago.
Last night police continued to question Chris Halliwell, 47, on suspicion of
kidnap and two murders after he led them to the body of Miss O'Callaghan and
took them to a second location where he said another body was buried.
It is understood that Miss O'Callaghan's body was naked, but police would not
say whether she had been sexually assaulted.
A search team spent yesterday digging in a ploughed field at Eastleach, Glos,
where Mr Halliwell said they would find the unnamed victim.
Det Supt Steve Fulcher, leading the murder inquiry, said he believed that if
there were another body, the victim would have been killed "some years ago".
However, he said: "We do not at this stage know what we are dealing with."
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Officers are understood to be unsure of the identity of the woman Mr Halliwell
claims is buried in the field, but Mrs Razzell, a mother of four, is one of
the few people to have gone missing in the area who has never been found.
Her estranged husband Glyn, a former bank worker, was convicted of her murder
in 2003, but has always protested his innocence.
His family has campaigned for his release ever since.
His sister, Vicky George, said she was desperately waiting for news from
Wiltshire Police.
"My brother has always maintained his innocence," she said. "But we can't get
his case reviewed until there is new evidence, and the police won't give us
access to the files."
Mrs Razzell, who worked at Swindon College, had several boyfriends after she
and her husband separated in 2000.
Police spent months trying to trace a man she was seen kissing in a pub car
park in the weeks before her death.
A close friend of Mrs Razzell, who declined to be named, said, "I hope it is
Linda's body, for everyone's sake." But Mrs Razzell's cousin, Julie Westmore,
said she had "no doubt" that the second body was someone else.
"There is only one person who murdered Linda and that is Glyn Razzell," she
said. "As far as we are concerned, the police got the right man for Linda's
murder and thankfully he is now behind bars where he belongs."
Detectives investigating the disappearance in 2007 of Kate Prout, 57, are also
understood to have been in touch with Wiltshire Police. The search for remains
has been complicated by the fact that the field where the body is thought to
have been buried is ploughed every year.
Mr Fulcher said it was "not a simple issue to ascertain whether there is a
second body at that location".
Swindon magistrates yesterday granted police another 24 hours to question Mr
Halliwell.
It emerged yesterday that Mr Halliwell, a father of three, knew 22-year-old
Miss O'Callaghan through his children and his two stepdaughters, who
socialised with the personal assistant.
His green Toyota Avensis was seen on Tuesday by officers checking CCTV footage
of the night Miss O'Callaghan went missing.
He is thought to have been kept under surveillance until his arrest on
Thursday.
Mr Fulcher disclosed that Mr Halliwell appeared to have moved Miss
O'Callaghan's body from its original location to the spot where it was found
on Thursday near the Uffington White Horse landmark.
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