A CHEATING pig farmer who murdered his wife then dumped her body in a septic tank has died in prison. David Venables was ...

A horse has been dramatically pulled from a South Coast farm septic tank in an intense multi-agency rescue, with emergency ...

David Venables, a former pig farmer, was convicted of the murder of 48-year-old Brenda Venables in May 1982 after he hid her body in an underground septic tank on their 440-acre farm in Kempsey.

The unusual rescue operation unfolded about 9pm Tuesday at a Jeremadra farm, south of Mogo, when the mare fell through a septic tank in a paddock. The female horse remained trapped in the waste ...