Murder probe as skeleton is found

A murder investigation has been launched after the skeleton of a woman wrapped in electric flex was recovered 40 years after she was buried in the former coal cellar of a west London house.

Scotland Yard detectives today arrested a 61-year-old Manchester woman on suspicion of murder.

Detectives were tipped off that a body was buried at the house in St Luke's Road, Notting Hill. Officers went to the address, now flats, and after digging up the concrete floor of the former cellar discovered the remains of a female adult.

It is believed the victim was murdered between 1962 and 1964. Police believe she was strangled with the wire.

Detective Inspector Geoff Baker, Serious Crime Group West, said: "We are appealing for witnesses or anybody who lived at the address from 1962-64."