Farmer who murdered his wife died in Shropshire hospital, inquest told
A farmer convicted of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a septic tank died at a Shropshire hospital, an inquest has heard.
David Venables, 92, was found guilty of murdering his wife Brenda following a trial in 2022.
Mrs Venables’ remains had been discovered in a septic tank in the grounds of their former home in Worcestershire In 2019.
She had supposedly vanished in 1982.
Venables’ trial was told how he had had been having an on-off affair with his wife’s carer and used Mrs Venables’ depression to craft a story that she had left in the middle of the night to take her own life.
An inquest held at Shropshire’s Coroner’s Court this week confirmed the details of Venables’ death, with the county’s deputy coroner Heath Westerman delivering a conclusion of death by natural causes.
The hearing on Thursday (June 26) was told that Venables had been held at HMP Stoke Heath near Market Drayton after being moved from HMP Hewell in January 2023.
