Millionaire charged with wife's murder

Mrs Morton's body has never been found

A millionaire architect has been charged with murdering his estranged wife who went missing six years ago.

Argentinian-born Gracia Morton, 41, disappeared without trace on 12 November 1997.

She had left her home in Kensington, west London to take her four-year-old daughter to nursery school.

Her green Rover 416 car remained parked where she left it but she was never seen again.

Despite a huge police search stretching from London to Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, no clues were found.

Before she vanished, Mrs Morton was said to be in regular contact with friends and family and police said it was "out of character" for her to go missing.

Michael Morton, 66, a retired architect, of St Anne's Road, Notting Hill, was arrested in June but charged on Monday after returning to Hammersmith police station to answer bail.

He is due to appear at West London Magistrates' Court on Tuesday charged with his wife's murder.