British detectives investigating the murder of three women from Bradford, northern England, who worked as prostitutes in the area said they may have discovered more body parts today.
An underwater search team made the discovery at the River Aire in Shipley, West Yorkshire, where the remains of one of the women, Suzanne Blamires, were recovered on Tuesday.
West Yorkshire police said the new find was about 200 yards from where Blamires's body was located.
"The remains will now be forensically examined to identify them and at this stage it is too early to speculate on who the remains belong to," a police spokesman said.
Stephen Griffiths, a mature student studying criminology at Bradford University according to media reports, was charged on Thursday with killing sex workers Blamires (36), Shelley Armitage (31) and Susan Rushworth (43).
Griffiths (40) appeared at Bradford Magistrates' Court on Friday morning for a brief hearing where he gave his name as "the crossbow cannibal".
Police are still trying to trace the other two sex workers. Armitage has been missing since April 26, and Rushworth disappeared on June 22 last year.
Reuters