Swindon murderer Glyn Razzell to remain behind bars

By Barrie Hudson - 14 August 2026

Crime
  • Murderer Glyn Razzell

    Murderer Glyn Razzell

A Swindon man who murdered his wife in 2002 has lost his latest bid to be freed on licence.

Glyn Razzell murdered his wife, Linda, in 2002, and was jailed for life the following year.

Today - 14 August - the High Court overturned a decision made by the Parole Board earlier this year that he was suitable for release.

Linda, from whom Razzell was estranged and who had accused him of domestic violence, had vanished while on her way to her job as a learning support assistant.

She had left her car in Alvescot Road

The murderer has never acknowledged guilt, in spite of evidence including the presence of Linda's blood in a car he was using.

Some years ago he was featured in a television programme about alleged miscarriages of justice, during which he initially agreed to take a lie-detector test but subsequently refused.

Razzell also refuses to reveal the fate of Linda's remains.

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