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| Police searching for missing teenager Alice Gross find a body in river Brent | Police searching for missing teenager Alice Gross find a body in river Brent |
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| Police searching for the missing London teenager Alice Gross have found a body in the river Brent. | Police searching for the missing London teenager Alice Gross have found a body in the river Brent. |
| Scotland Yard said they had updated the family of Alice, 14, about the development which happened late on Tuesday. | Scotland Yard said they had updated the family of Alice, 14, about the development which happened late on Tuesday. |
| Police described it as a “difficult time” for the family and friends of her family and were planning to make a fuller statement on Wednesday morning. | Police described it as a “difficult time” for the family and friends of her family and were planning to make a fuller statement on Wednesday morning. |
| It has been a month since 14-year-old Alice failed to return home to her family, sparking the Metropolitan police’s biggest search operation since the 7/7 bombings. | It has been a month since 14-year-old Alice failed to return home to her family, sparking the Metropolitan police’s biggest search operation since the 7/7 bombings. |
| In a statement early on Wednesday morning, police said: “As part of the operation to find Alice Gross, search teams have last night, Tuesday, 30 September, found a body in the river Brent. | |
| “Officers have recovered the body from the water. The body has now been removed from the scene. Alice’s family has been updated of this development. Formal identification awaits and a postmortem examination will be scheduled in due course. | “Officers have recovered the body from the water. The body has now been removed from the scene. Alice’s family has been updated of this development. Formal identification awaits and a postmortem examination will be scheduled in due course. |
| “Commander Graham McNulty will make a statement outside New Scotland Yard in the morning, Wednesday, 1 October. | “Commander Graham McNulty will make a statement outside New Scotland Yard in the morning, Wednesday, 1 October. |
| “There will be no further details released prior to this statement. | “There will be no further details released prior to this statement. |
| “We ask the media to give Alice’s family and friends the privacy they require at this difficult time.” | “We ask the media to give Alice’s family and friends the privacy they require at this difficult time.” |
| More than 300 officers from over a dozen police forces across the country have been involved in the search, which has even called on the assistance of the RAF who helped to identify possible new search sites. | More than 300 officers from over a dozen police forces across the country have been involved in the search, which has even called on the assistance of the RAF who helped to identify possible new search sites. |
| On Monday a stretch of the Grand Union canal, which Alice walked alongside before she disappeared, was sifted through in the hope to recover her possessions, including her iPhone, but officers again drew a blank. | On Monday a stretch of the Grand Union canal, which Alice walked alongside before she disappeared, was sifted through in the hope to recover her possessions, including her iPhone, but officers again drew a blank. |
| Yellow ribbons adorn homes and railings in west London where the community have been praised by officers for their help in raising the profile of the missing teenager. | Yellow ribbons adorn homes and railings in west London where the community have been praised by officers for their help in raising the profile of the missing teenager. |
| Alice was last captured on CCTV walking along the towpath next to the Grand Union Canal as it passes under Trumpers Way at 4.26pm on 28 August but has not been seen since. | Alice was last captured on CCTV walking along the towpath next to the Grand Union Canal as it passes under Trumpers Way at 4.26pm on 28 August but has not been seen since. |
| Convicted murderer Arnis Zalkalns, who was seen on CCTV cycling the same route behind the teenager remains the prime suspect in her disappearance. | Convicted murderer Arnis Zalkalns, who was seen on CCTV cycling the same route behind the teenager remains the prime suspect in her disappearance. |
| Police are urgently working with the authorities in his native Latvia to track down the labourer who was reported missing within days of Alice’s disappearance. | Police are urgently working with the authorities in his native Latvia to track down the labourer who was reported missing within days of Alice’s disappearance. |
| The force has come under fire for delays in identifying Zalkalns as a risk, and commander Graham McNulty admitted that British detectives would have no power to arrest him if he has fled abroad. | The force has come under fire for delays in identifying Zalkalns as a risk, and commander Graham McNulty admitted that British detectives would have no power to arrest him if he has fled abroad. |
| The general labourer, who worked at a building site in Isleworth, west London, is thought to have come to the UK in 2007, but authorities here have come under fire for apparently holding no record of his conviction for bludgeoning and stabbing his wife Rudite to death in Latvia. | The general labourer, who worked at a building site in Isleworth, west London, is thought to have come to the UK in 2007, but authorities here have come under fire for apparently holding no record of his conviction for bludgeoning and stabbing his wife Rudite to death in Latvia. |
| He is described as white, 5ft 10in and stocky, with dark brown hair that he normally wears tied in a ponytail. | He is described as white, 5ft 10in and stocky, with dark brown hair that he normally wears tied in a ponytail. |