Police investigating Alice Gross murder find a body
Police searching for Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns – the prime suspect in the murder of London schoolgirl Alice Gross – find a body in west London.
The police investigation into the disappearance of Alice Gross became a murder inquiry after her body was discovered in a river in west London earlier this week.
But a body believed to be the main suspect’s was discovered by police in London. He had been missing since 3 September.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “We can confirm that officers working on the Alice Gross murder investigation, in their continued widening search have today found the body of a man in dense woodland in Boston Manor Park.”
Arnis Zalkalns was a convicted killer in his home country Latvia and was spotted cycling 15 minutes behind Alice along on canal towpath when she was last seen on 28 August.
Last Tuesday, police said that “significant efforts” were made to hide the schoolgirl’s body, and Gross’s parents said they had been left “devastated”.
“Why anyone would want to hurt her is something that we are struggling to come to terms with,” they added.
Photo: Police outside Boston Manor Park