Man charged with wife's murder

3:15am Saturday 17th May 2008

The husband of Emmy award-winning make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens has been charged with her murder, police said.

Sussex Police charged David Chenery-Wickens, 51, from Duddleswell, East Sussex, with murder after Mrs Chenery-Wickens' remains were found off Worth Lane in the village of Little Horsted, near Uckfield, East Sussex, just before 10am on Friday.

Chenery-Wickens will appear at Hastings Magistrates' Court.

Mrs Chenery-Wickens, 48, had been missing for four months before her remains were found by a woman walking her dog.

A post-mortem examination was carried out on Friday night and dental records were used to identify the body. The cause of death is yet to be established.

Mrs Chenery-Wickens, who worked on shows including Dead Ringers, The League Of Gentlemen and Casualty, was reported missing by her husband on January 24 after she failed to attend a meeting at the BBC in London.

She won a prestigious Emmy award in 2000 for her work on Arabian Nights.

And in 2003 she was nominated for a Bafta in the make-up and hair design category for her work on Dead Ringers, missing out to an artist on Little Britain.

Dead Ringers impressionist Jon Culshaw made a televised appeal for help in finding Mrs Chenery-Wickens days after she went missing.

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