CONVICTED murderer Glyn Razzell’s four children still won’t speak to him, 14 years after a Bristol jury found him guilty of killing wife Linda.

The revelation came as the former banker appeared on the BBC’s miscarriage of justice programme Convicted in a bid to prove his innocence.

In the first episode of the two-part series, screened last night, Razzell tells campaigner Louise Shorter of charity Inside Justice he was set up and he believes his estranged wife could still be on the run. Linda Razzell’s body was never found.

He told Ms Shorter: “I’m grateful for any help I can get. I have been in prison for coming up to 14 years and I have had enough of it.”

Razzell and wife Linda were separated and filing for divorce when the woman went missing. The family home was in Highworth.

Ms Shorter asked Razzell, who was twice acquitted when he appeared in court on domestic violence charges: “Do you have any contact with the children now?” No, he replied. “Have they always believed you are guilty?” “Yes.”

The four children, two boys and two girls, were aged between five at 14 at the time of their mother’s disappearance. A month after she went missing the children wrote their mother a card marking what would have been her 42nd birthday. It read: “Mum, we love you. Come home safely.”

Last night, Inside Justice investigators reconsidered police evidence and spoke to Razzell’s then solicitor, Swindon's Rob Ross.

The discovery by police forensics experts of blood in the boot of a borrowed Renault Laguna driven by Razzell on the day of his estranged wife’s disappearance helped secure his conviction in 2003.

But Razzell claimed the blood was planted there, he says by his wife or a friend. He believes she was trying to discredit him.

The borrowed Laguna was analysed three times by police investigators. On the second occasion they took carpet samples from the boot. The following week they returned with Luminol, a chemical that helps identify spots of blood otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

Razzell believes the blood was dumped sometime between second and third forensics checks. Inside Justice’s forensics consultants are expected to check the boot carpet samples in tonight’s episode.

Also tonight, campaigners will speak to former Det Supt Steve Fulcher, accused by the police watchdog of breaking regulations to win a confession from killer taxi driver Christopher Halliwell. In his book, Catching a Serial Killer, Mr Fulcher suggests Halliwell could have been responsible for Linda Razzell’s disappearance.

Convicted is on BBC2 at 9pm.

Who was Linda Razzell? Timeline of a disappearance

Tuesday, March 19, 2002: The last time Linda Razzell, 41, is seen by her children and boyfriend. She drives from Highworth to Old Walcot, where the Swindon College learning support assistant parks her Ford Escort on Alvescot Road. She never arrives at work. Her mobile phone was later recovered from a nearby alleyway.

That morning, Glyn Razzell claims he takes a long walk. His apparent route takes him past Westlea police station. The car he drives later that day, a Renault Laguna, has been leant to him by a friend who has borrows Razzell’s Ford Galaxy people carrier for a booze cruise to France.

March/April, 2002: Police make extensive searches for Linda, with reconstructions of her movements, releases of CCTV images and an emotional witness appeal by Glyn Razzell and Linda’s boyfriend, Gregory Worrall. But police grow increasingly suspicious of Linda’s estranged husband, who they find has given them incorrect information about what he was wearing.

Friday, May 17, 2002: Razzell is charged with the murder of his wife.

Friday, September 2002: He appears at Bristol Crown Court, where he pleaded not guilty to his wife’s murder. At a hearing in November, a Bristol judge bailed Razzell and adjourned the case until the following summer.

Saturday, November 15, 2003: Razzell is convicted for murder after a month-long trial. The jury decides unanimously that he is guilty.

Friday, March 11, 2005: A bid to have his sentence overturned fails, as Razzell is unable to provide the court with fresh DNA evidence. Judge Kenneth Zucker QC rules the conviction to be perfectly safe.

Monday, March 17, 2008: Mr Justice Pitchers tells Razzell he must serve at least 16 years i prison. The Swindon man had taken his case for review at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.