A MAN who killed his wife but has never revealed the location of her body could soon be released from prison.

Russell Causley, now 77, murdered Carole Packman in 1985 after she asked for a divorce.

She was 40 when she disappeared from their family home in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Causley was jailed for life 11 years later and was the first person in Britain to be convicted of murder without a body being discovered.

The Parole Board confirmed his case will be heard in June.

Carole’s family are still hoping her body is found.

Causley once confessed to the killing, then retracted the statement to claim he was innocent.

And this week Carole's family feared he was one of two inmates at the jail who had died of coronavirus.

Her grandson Neil Tweeted: “I can confirm Russell Causley is very much still alive and was not the latest victim of #coronavirus at #HMPLittlehey still gives us hope that he may give us the final piece to our jigsaw before he dies.”

The original 1996 conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal, and he was re-tried in 2004 and caged.

If Causley is denied his freedom by the Parole Board, he will have to wait a minimum of two years before being referred back for another hearing.

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