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| Alice Gross disappearance: Suspect Arnis Zalkalns has murder conviction | |
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| Police searching for 14-year-old Alice Gross are treating a 41-year-old man with a murder conviction as a suspect in her disappearance. | |
| Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns went missing a week after Alice and used the Grand Union Canal route to get to work. | |
| Alice, from Hanwell, was last seen on CCTV cameras on 28 August by the same canal route in west London. | Alice, from Hanwell, was last seen on CCTV cameras on 28 August by the same canal route in west London. |
| Mr Zalkalns served seven years in prison for murder in Latvia, after being convicted in 1998. | |
| Police said he was arrested in the Ealing area of west London in 2009 for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl, but no further action was taken. | |
| Mr Zalkalns was seen on CCTV on 28 August cycling along Brentford Lock at 16:00 BST, 15 minutes after Alice walked that route. He was last seen on 3 September. | |
| Latvian authorities told Metropolitan Police (Met) about Mr Zalkalns murder conviction "in the last few days", Scotland Yard said. | |
| Det Supt Carl Mehta, from the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "The conviction was in 1998 and he served a custodial sentence of seven years." | |
| Police have received more than 100 calls to their #FindAlice investigation after an appeal on BBC Crimewatch earlier this week. | |
| A reward of up to £20,000 is being offered for anyone who has information that leads police to find the missing girl. | |
| Detectives believe he is likely to have come across Alice as they were both going in the same direction, north along the canal towpath. | Detectives believe he is likely to have come across Alice as they were both going in the same direction, north along the canal towpath. |