Police have removed a badly decomposing body from Boston Manor Park, which is thought to be that of Alice Gross murder suspect Arnis Zalkalns.
The Latvian labourer from Ealing disappeared on September 3, a week after 14-year-old Hanwell schoolgirl Alice was last seen alive on the Grand Union Canal towpath.
It emerged that he had served seven years in jail in his homeland for the brutal murder of his wife Rudite, and had been on the towpath when Alice disappeared, causing suspicion to fall on him.
Alice's body was recovered from the River Brent at Hanwell on Tuesday October 1, and police said considerable efforts had been made to conceal the body.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "Although no formal identification has been made, early indications suggest the body may be that of Arnis Zalkalns. We have updated his partner and a family liaison officer is supporting her."
The body has been taken to a west London mortuary.
Zalkalns, who had been working in Isleworth, has a partner and young child in Ealing. getwestlondon spoke to Arnis Zalkaln's former landlord in Ealing who said he was 'fit and strong with a violent temper', however a family friend of the Latvian claimed he was 'quiet and polite'.
National media are reporting that the body in Boston Manor Park was hanged and had been there for around a month, but police have not commented publicly on this.
