US EditionDad asked his son to dig up mum's body
- Andrew Griggs, aged 62, is serving a life sentence for murdering his pregnant wife Debbie, who disappeared from their Kent home in 1999.
- Griggs concealed Debbie's body in a barrel buried under a concrete shed base in his Dorset garden and instructed his son to exhume it and send a hair strand abroad to fake her survival.
- The scheme to exonerate Griggs unraveled when his son reported the plan to authorities, resulting in Griggs receiving an additional three-year prison term in 2025 for obstructing justice.
- Detective Chief Inspector Neil Kimber called Griggs' actions a 'callous and selfish' insult to Debbie’s memory and highlighted the grave distress caused to the family.
- The case underscores the lengths Griggs went to evade justice, but his conviction and additional sentencing provide some closure to Debbie’s family and the public.
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Andrew Griggs hid for more than two decades in the garden of his home the body of his wife Debbie, whom he murdered in 1999, when he was 34 years old and was pregnant for four and a half months. He was sentenced to a minimum sentence of 20 years in October 2019, but even then the woman's body had not yet appeared, and only the finding of traces of her blood in the husband's vehicle helped prove her guilt.
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Killer husband sentenced to 3 more years after asking son to dig up wife's body
A KILLER who plotted to cover up his wife’s murder by asking their son to dig up her body got three more years in jail yesterday. Cheating Andrew Griggs killed pregnant Debbie, 34, in May 1999 and hid her body in a sealed water butt under their garden shed for 23 years. PAPregnant Debbie Griggs was killed by her cheating husband Andrew in 1999[/caption] He was convicted of her murder in 2019 despite the absence of a body. But he later tried to e…
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