A WESTBOURNE mum was murdered before her body was burned and the ashes scattered at the Meyrick Park Golf Course, investigators believe.

Veronica Packman's disappearance in June 1985 is the subject of a major new investigation led by the man who exposed Jimmy Savile.

An ITV documentary made by Simon Cowell's production company Syco has had viewers gripped this summer as former police officer Mark Williams-Thomas attempts to unravel the case's unanswered questions .

Mrs Packman - known as Carol - went missing from her home in Ipswich Road shortly after enquiring with a solicitor about getting divorced from husband Russell Causley, who had moved his mistress and fellow aircraft engineer Patricia into the family home a year before.

Causley, who had taken Patricia’s surname, told his family a series of lies about Mrs Packman’s disappearance in an attempt to convince them she was still alive.

And in 1993 he attempted to fake his own death in an apparent boating accident as part of a multi-million pound insurance fraud.

He was jailed for two years and Patricia, now known as Patricia Ward, was handed a 12-month suspended sentence for conspiring to defraud.

This prompted the police to look again at Causley’s involvement in his wife’s disappearance, and he was subsequently convicted of her murder in 1996 despite the absence of a body.

The Daily Echo exclusively revealed in 2015 that Causley had finally admitted his guilt in a letter written from behind bars - although the full content of the letter was not made public, meaning the circumstances surrounding the death, and details of others involved, have remained a mystery.

The fourth and final episode of The Investigator: A British Crime Story will reveal that Causley allegedly claimed he had burned Carol's body in his back garden before scattering the ashes at a number of locations, including the golf course.

Police have recently visited Causley in prison to speak with him, it is claimed.

Carol's grandson Neil Gillingham said: “He [Russell] stands by what he said in the letter.

"The letter’s completely truthful.

"Meyrick Park golf course was one of the locations he’s given as where he scattered the ashes.”

Mr Williams-Thomas will also visit the golf course to try and find evidence, 30 years after the murder.

The programme is screened at 9pm on Thursdays.