Police searching for the killer of Hanwell schoolgirl Alice Gross have today (Saturday) found a body in Boston Manor Park.

Detectives working on the case made the discovery of a man's body in a wooded area of the park, but have not confirmed whether it is prime suspect Arnis Zalkalns.

Alice, 14, disappeared from the Grand Union Canal towpath on August 28 and her body was recovered from the nearby River Brent at Hanwell on Tuesday. Police said significant efforts had been made to conceal the body.

Zalkalns, 41, a builder from Latvia who had served seven years in jail in his homeland for murdering his wife Rudite , was filmed by CCTV cycling along the canal 15 minutes after Alice had walked by. He has been missing from his Ealing home since September 3.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "We can confirm that officers working on the Alice Gross murder investigation, in their continued widening search have today (Saturday, 4 October) found the body of a man in dense woodland in Boston Manor Park. More details will be released as appropriate."

Zalkalns, who worked at a building site in Isleworth , is believed to have come to the UK in 2007, but authorities here are thought to have had no record of his murder conviction.