Overview

• Griggs murdered his pregnant wife Debbie in May 1999 and concealed her remains beneath a garden shed for 23 years.
• A 2019 conviction secured a life sentence with a 20-year minimum term even though Debbie’s body had not been recovered.
• In 2022 he enlisted his son Jake to exhume Debbie’s remains and forge evidence of her being alive to challenge his conviction.
• Police excavated Griggs’s Dorset property in October 2022 and discovered Debbie’s body sealed in a fibreglass-lined barrel.
• After two decades of uncertainty, Debbie’s remains were cremated in November 2022 and her ashes scattered at sea.