A MURDER that rocked Swindon 16 years ago is to feature in a TV documentary next week.

Linda Razzell disappeared on her way to work one morning in March 2002. The following year her husband Glyn was brought to trial and convicted of murdering her.

He denied it and his maintained his innocence ever since.

On Tuesday and Wednesday the case is re-examined by Inside Justice, an organisation that looks into possible miscarriages of justice and works to find out if there is new evidence that could lead to the conviction being quashed.

On his website, Razzell highlighted the show, Conviction: Murder in Suburbia, and said: “In recent months my case has been submitted to the Criminal Case Review Commission and is currently under consideration.”

Mother-of-four Linda went missing on March 19 after dropping off her children at school, leaving her car in Alvescot Road and setting off down an alleyway for work at Swindon College. Her mobile phone was later recovered from the alleyway, but no trace of her was found despite police appeals and a search covering more than 200 sites.

Her body has not been found but her estranged husband, who had previously been cleared by a court of assaulting, her was jailed.

Detectives said he had put her in the boot of a Renault Laguna belonging to a friend. A spot of her blood was found in the boot with another smear in the front passenger mat.

In a series of letters written to the Advertiser protesting his innocence, Razzell spoke of his frustration with the legal process and said he hoped to clear his name through the Appeal Court.

He claimed the only evidence against him was the blood in the car, which had not been found during the first three police forensic examinations.

“My lawyers think it wasn’t planted in the car until after these examinations, when I had no access to it,” he wrote.

He also complained of Forensic Science Service documents being held back from his trial solicitor, which he believes would help him prove his innocence.

Two years ago former detective Steve Fulcher voiced suspicion that Christopher Halliwell, the taxi driver who murdered Becky Godden and Sian O’Callaghan, could be behind Linda’s disappearance and that of others. He claimed the March 19 date -the same date Sian and chef Claudia Lawrence went missing - was significant because detectives believed it was the date he broke up with a former girlfriend in the 1980s.

But Linda’s family dismissed the claims and said there was no doubt in their minds who the murderer was.

Razzell lodged appeals against his conviction and his sentence but lost them.

Conviction: Murder in Suburbia is due to be aired on BBC2 at 9pm.