British detectives hunting the killer of two women whose dismembered bodies were dumped in bin bags in north London have released a man arrested in error.
He was being held in Greenwich, London.
Yesterday, police named Mr Anthony John Hardy, who is in his fifties, as the owner of the flat in Camden, north London, where part of a human torso had been found.
However, police have since announced that the man they arrested was not Mr Hardy. The arrest was believed to have beena case of mistaken identity.
The double murder inquiry began after a homeless man, who was foraging for food, found body parts of both victims in bin bags at the back of a pub close to Hardy's ground-floor council flat in Royal College Street, Camden on Monday.
He took the parts, two sections of the legs of a woman in her 30s, to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases where police were called.
Officers then searched the bin at the back of the pub, the College Arms, and found the torso of a younger woman also wrapped in a bin liner.
Later, as part of extensive house-to-house inquiries, they searched Mr Hardy's flat and found a second torso and a hacksaw.
Neither of the victims has yet been identified but police do not think they are related or lived at the flat.
Detectives who found the body parts are fearful there may be more victims.
PA