Blog 4 - Four years after killing his wife, millionaire leads police to body 

Source

Lakhani, N. (2011, Nov. 19). The Independent. Retrieved from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/four-years-after-killing-his-wife-millionaire-leads-police-to-body-6264604.html.

        Left: Kate and Adrian Prout’s former house in Redmarley, Gloucestershire.

Right: Kate and Adrian Prout

Summary

Millionaire Adrian Prout, who was jailed for a minimum of 18 years, always denied any involvement in the disappearance of his wife Kate in 2007. However, after he failed a lie detector test in July, he confessed to his fiancée that he strangled his wife and buried her body on their farm in Redmarley, Gloucestershire. His fiancée always believed in his innocence and she is completely shocked after the confession. Also Kate’s family is in shock of the news. After four years of pleading with Adrian Prout to reveal where he had hidden the body, he finally showed the police the area where he had buried Kate.

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It is unbelievable that Adrian Prout thought he could get away with the murder and that he kept it a secret for so many years. He fooled the police, his friends, his fiancée and the rest. Probably he doesn’t have any remorse at all for what he did. I am also surprised that the police never found a body while they continued their search on the farm after Prout’s conviction. It was the 276-acre farm Prout revealed as the place where he had buried the body. Of course it is a huge amount of land the police had to investigate, but you ask yourself if they could have solved this mystery earlier. Fortunately Kate’s family can now begin with the closure of this horrible event.