WIFE killer Michael Bowen (pictured) should reveal where he hid his victim's body and end her family's torment, the detective who led her murder investigation says.

Tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of Llandogo woman Sandie Bowen's disappearance.

And now Detective Chief Inspector Terry Hapgood is calling on her killer husband to tell police where her body is.

Last year, the Prison Service revealed that after years in prison for murder and a failed appeal, forester Bowen had finally accepted responsibility for his wife's death.

But police say that six years on, he is still unwilling to meet officers and tell them how he disposed of his wife's body - and where it is. DCI Hapgood said: "It has been six years since she went missing. It is time this matter was brought to a conclusion.

"He owes it to her family and to himself to help the police find the missing body."

Grandmother Mrs Bowen, 54, went missing from her home in Llandogo, near Monmouth, on August 6, 1997.

On the day of her disappearance, Mrs Bowen told her husband she was having an affair.

Bowen said she then asked him for a lift to Newport railway station because she was going to visit her daughter, Anita Spencer, in Folkestone. She was never seen again.

In 1998, despite protesting his innocence and her body never being found, Bowen was convicted of her murder and given a life sentence. He had denied the charge.

The following year, he lost an appeal against his conviction and is currently serving at Gartree maximum security prison in Leicestershire. A massive police search has failed to find any trace of Mrs Bowen's body, but detectives believe she is buried somewhere in Wentwood Forest, which Michael Bowen, now 52, knew well.

Despite repeated pleas by police for Bowen to reveal her body's whereabouts, he has always refused.

DCI Hapgood said: "The husband has accepted responsibility for her death, but the facts remain vague.

"The police are now awaiting an opportunity to interview him in person to get more details, but at this moment in time he is unwilling to communicate fully with the police."