MURDERER Glyn Razzell should reveal where he dumped his wife Linda's body, says the woman who had to tell his children their mother was dead.

And the effect on his children of not knowing what happened to their mother is making their lives unbearable, she said.

She revealed that one of the children still sleeps holding his mother's nightdress for comfort.

Swindon police family liaison officer Lisa Mundy, who helped look after Linda's four children in the months after the Highworth mother went missing, said that the convicted murderer has continued to make his children's lives unbearable by not giving the details.

Linda, 41, vanished on March 19, 2002, and police have given up hope of finding her alive.

Det Con Mundy, 36, said: "During 17-years service with the police I have been involved with many harrowing and upsetting investigations.

"However, nothing has been more harrowing than the investigation into the murder of Linda Razzell. "Glyn Razzell should do the decent thing and make known the whereabouts of Linda.

"The only person who could have made the following months more bearable for those children was Glyn Razzell, but he chose not to do so.

"He wallowed in self-righteous indignation, protesting his innocence, which of course he was entitled to do up to and including his trial.

"He is not however entitled to do so now as he has received a very fair trial and the outcome is just."

Linda's four children Catherine, Matthew, Emma and Robin are at school and being cared for by Linda's cousin, Julie Westmore and her sister Beverley Lewis. But the scars of what their father did to their mother are still deep, which is why DC Mundy thinks Razzell, who was described as a chess player and control freak during his trial for murder last year, should finally allow them to say goodbye properly.

He has denied knowing where she is in spite of evidence during the trial that he had joked to friends about "bumping her off" and making throwaway comments that the pits at the Cotswold Water Park near Ashton Keynes would be a good place to dump a body.

DC Mundy said: "Razzell is still causing heartache for the children.

"He has had a fair trial and now should just let it lie because all we care about is the children is he really saying Linda would just walk out on her children and plant her own blood? I remember having to tell the children their mum was dead it was the most difficult thing I have ever had to do and I had to say it on four separate occasions.

"Catherine already knew, Matthew felt responsible, Emma cried and cried and Robin asked whether he had to go and live in an orphanage.

"You can't not get involved Robin is a year younger than my daughter and I feel so strongly about what has happened.

"I had to explain why we were searching through their mother's belongings, why we were seizing her hairbrush and why we were taking swabs from them.

"I interviewed the children at great length and listened to them talk about their mum and how much they loved and missed her.

"The day I told them their mother was dead and had been murdered by their father was the worst and most difficult days of my life."

Razzell was jailed for life on Friday, November 14, last year after a 12-member jury found him unanimously guilty of murder a charge he had denied from the very start.

In an exclusive interview with the Advertiser days before he was sentenced Razzell reiterated his innocence and said he was convinced the jury would acquit him.

He said that he then planned to set about starting to make contact with his four children.

DC Mundy added: "We watched each child crumple with their realisation that they had lost their mum and father the youngest child asking me if he now had to go and live in an orphanage. This young boy still sleeps holding his mother's nightdress."

Earlier this year Razzell launched an appeal against his conviction. A decision on whether he has been granted leave to appeal is expected before the summer.

But this week Razzell's girlfriend, Rachel Smith, launched a website to campaign for Razzell's release and put up a £5,000 reward for anyone who can provide information about where Linda is.

But DC Mundy dismissed the website as showing Razzell's views and said that in her view it proved he was still being manipulative from his prison cell.

Miss Smith did not wish to comment when contacted by the Advertiser.