Overview

• Canterbury Crown Court imposed a consecutive three-year term on Griggs for perverting the course of justice, supplementing his life sentence with a 20-year minimum term.
• Griggs instructed his son to dig up Debbie’s body from beneath a shed base at their former Dorset home and remove a lock of hair to feign her survival.
• Kent Police unearthed Debbie’s remains in October 2022 sealed inside a barrel-shaped container alongside clothing, bedding and a car boot liner.
• A cold case review linked forensic evidence from the container to Debbie’s abandoned Peugeot 309 and the clothing Griggs wore on the day she vanished.
• Investigators determined that Griggs’s affair with a 15-year-old provided the motive for murdering his pregnant wife and concealing her body for over two decades.