06/10/2014

Alice Gross Murder: Post-Mortem To Be Carried Out On Zalkalns

A post-mortem is to be carried out today on the body of a man who is believed to have murdered school girl Alice Gross.

It is understood Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns was found hanged in woods at Boston Manor Park on Saturday.

The body is scheduled for a post-mortem at Fulham Mortuary this afternoon.

The convicted murderer disappeared from Ealing on 4 September.

Alice, 14, is believed to have been killed while she was walking home in Hanwell.

Her body was found in the River Brent on Tuesday 30 September.

CCTV cameras showed Zalkans, 41, cycling along the same route behind Alice on the day she disappeared.

(CD/IT)

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