Alice Gross police search is largest since 7/7 London terror attacks

The search for missing teenager Alice Gross is now the biggest search mounted by the Met since the 7/7 terror attacks in London. The 14-year-old from Hanwell, west London, has been missing for 24 days and police continue to make new appeals for information. Detectives revealed this week they are also searching for Latvian national Arnis Zalkans who disappeared from his home in nearby Ealing on September 3 - a week after Alice disappeared.

Our officers are working through the weekend - carrying on those searches. We will not stop our hunt for Alice. Whilst we have already seized many hundreds of hours of CCTV we still need the public’s help.

Met Police Detective Superintendent Carl Mehta

The 41-year-old was jailed in his native country in the late 1990s for murdering his wife and burying her in a forest following a dispute about her sexuality. It has also emerged Zalkans was arrested in London on suspicion of indecent assault on a 14-year-old girl in 2009, but was never charged. Search teams, including dogs and divers, have been deployed across west London. On Friday night, police searched a former home of Zalkans in Hanwell. The owner of the house said he last saw Zalkans at the rental property two days before Alice went missing on August 28. Police have recovered the suspect’s red Trek bicycle from the property.

If you are a shop owner, have CCTV at your home, or were out filming in the areas of Ealing and Hanwell and have footage from the afternoon of Thursday 28 August when Alice was last seen, and right up to the 3 September when Arnis Zalkalns was last seen, then please get in touch with us.

Detective Superintendent Carl Mehta

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