Ref. 27791-19GLYN Razzell's girlfriend has offered a £5,000 reward to anyone who can prove missing mother of four Linda Razzell is still alive.

Rachel Smith believes Razzell is the victim of a miscarriage of justice and has appealed for people to "keep an open mind" as she attempts to secure the release of the convicted murderer.

She has said the cash will be paid to the person who passes on information that can demonstrate his innocence and secure his release from prison.

Razzell, formerly of Meadow Road, a redundant investment manager with Zurich Financial Services, was found unanimously guilty at Bristol Crown Court in November last year of murdering his estranged wife.

The trial heard the bloodied or bleeding body of the 41-year-old Highworth mother of four was bundled into the back of a car Razzell had been driving on the day of her disappearance on the way to work at Swindon College. Her body has never been found.

Now Ms Smith has set up a website www.glynrazzell.org.uk to whip up support for her boyfriend, who has served 75 days as a Category A prisoner at Bristol's Horfield Prison.

Ms Smith, who lives with her parents in Marlborough, said: "I am offering £5,000 of my own money because I think it will bring people forward who may know something about Linda's whereabouts. I am in no doubt that she is still alive there is no evidence to suggest she is dead.

"I think she planned her getaway and intended to frame Glyn. There is no doubt in my mind that he is innocent the best way of proving that is to find Linda.

"Linda is a fluent French speaker and had lived in Paris for a year. She loved to visit France on holidays.

"We have to remember that car was checked the day after she went missing and no blood was found at all. Please keep an open mind until you have checked all the facts log onto the website and read it for yourselves."

In spite of defence witnesses who claimed they saw Linda alive and well in Weston-super-Mare and Carmarthen after she went missing Razzell, who has protested his innocence from day one, was convicted in just over six hours.

Operation Docker the £250,000 Swindon police investigation into Linda's disappearance included a fingertip search of a two-mile radius from where her red Ford Escort was parked in Alvescot Road, Old Walcot, and large swathes of the immediate countryside, including Barbury Castle, Hodson, parts of South Gloucestershire, Queen's Park and the Cotswold Water Park.

Ms Smith's website includes sections on how police allegedly acted contrary to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, steps taken to find Linda's body and evidence, it is claimed, that Linda planned her disappearance.

Giles Sheldrick