A JEALOUS husband yesterday admitted murdering his wife and dumping her body in a shallow grave.

Company boss Christopher Kerrell, 35, tried to cover his tracks by launching a missing persons appeal for mum-of-three Hollie, 28.

They split weeks before her murder after a series of rows because he suspected her of cheating.

The Sun can reveal that Kerrell kept a baseball bat in the boot of his car in case his suspicions proved correct and he could find the man.

He killed her when he found phone messages to another man during a visit to the family home in Knighton, Powys, to see his children.

It is believed Kerrell murdered Hollie upstairs in the house then drove the couple’s three children to his mother’s home.

He returned that night to put her body in his car before driving it to the remove hillside village of Whitton nine miles away.

Kerrell knew the area like the back of his hand. He had helped his parents run a small sheep farm there and knew the ideal place to hide his wife’s body.

Kerrell then buried her body on remote farmland and reported her missing.

He appealed on Facebook for volunteers to join a search party and urged her friends to contact him if they saw her.

Ian Ives-Dean, 37, who lives in the peaceful village of Knucklas, said: “He came around asking if we had seen her on Sunday and Monday.

“We just thought she’s gone to find some space and didn’t imagine she had been murdered for one minute.
A judge at Merthyr Tydfil crown court yesterday told Kerrell he faces a life sentence.