Half a body found

Press, 10 September 1984, Page 10

Half a body found

NZPA-AFP London Scotland Yard has launched a full-scale investigation after the discovery of the bottom half of a woman’s body under a Rolls-Royce in a posh London neighbourhood. A fireman spotted two legs protruding from under the car in Duchess Street near the administrative centre of the British Broad-

casting Corporation. The legs belonged to a white woman aged between 20 and 25. She had been cut in half and her lower half stuffed into a plastic sack, the police said. The woman had been dead about two weeks. “We desperately need to find the other half of the body. Without the head or fingerprints, it’s almost impossible to get a positive

identification,” a police spokesman said. The Rolls-Royce owner, John Wiseman, a businessman whose office is nearby, probably tore open the sack containing the legs while parking, the police said. Mr Wiseman said he knew nothing about the sack or its contents. A neighbour said the sack had been lying among a group of garbage cans for several days.