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| A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the police investigation into the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler. | A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the police investigation into the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler. |
| The man, from West London, was arrested by Surrey Police at 0930 GMT on suspicion of assisting an offender. | The man, from West London, was arrested by Surrey Police at 0930 GMT on suspicion of assisting an offender. |
| He is being asked about the potential disposal of a Daewoo Nexia car, which police had been looking for earlier this month in a lake near Heathrow. | He is being asked about the potential disposal of a Daewoo Nexia car, which police had been looking for earlier this month in a lake near Heathrow. |
| Milly, 13, disappeared in March 2002 on the way home from her school in Surrey. | Milly, 13, disappeared in March 2002 on the way home from her school in Surrey. |
| Prime suspect | |
| Her body was found in September 2002, 25 miles away on Yateley Heath, Hampshire. Her remains were identified using dental records. | Her body was found in September 2002, 25 miles away on Yateley Heath, Hampshire. Her remains were identified using dental records. |
| Police said the arrested man voluntarily went to the police station. | Police said the arrested man voluntarily went to the police station. |
| The prime suspect in Milly's murder is 41-year-old Levi Bellfield. | |
| The red Daewoo Nexia seen on CCTV has never been found | |
| The former bouncer is serving a whole-life sentence for killing two women - students Marsha McDonnell, 19, and 22-year-old Amelie Delagrange. | |
| Bellfield admitted in a newspaper interview he drove the car seen on CCTV at the time Milly disappeared, but said he was transporting building materials. | |
| Officers have been trying to build a case against him. | |
| In August, the Crown Prosecution Service was handed a dossier of circumstantial evidence against Bellfield and is still considering whether to charge him with Milly's murder. | |
| Lake search | |
| Police had appealed for help in tracing the red Daewoo Nexia believed have been used to transport her body. | |
| A 40-year-old man suspected of having helped dispose of the car, which had been stolen from a car park in west London, was arrested by police in August, and released after questioning. | |
| Following a tip-off they searched Bedfont Lakes, near Heathrow, on 6 October. | |
| Milly phoned her father on 21 March 2002 to say she would be home in 30 minutes. | |
| But she vanished near Walton-on-Thames railway station that afternoon, triggering a UK-wide search. | |
| The day before she disappeared, a 12-year-old girl reported being offered a lift by man in a similar car in Shepperton, Walton-on-Thames. |