Danielle police examine body find

Danielle Jones has not been seen since June 2001

Police are carrying out tests in an attempt to identify a body found a few miles from where missing teenager Danielle Jones was last seen.

Workmen from the Blue Circle cement works in Springhead Road, Northfleet, north Kent, discovered the body on Friday morning.

The complex is about five miles from East Tilbury in Essex where Danielle disappeared nearly nine months ago while on her way to catch the school bus

That was the last time the 15-year-old was seen and her body has never been found.

The body was found at a cement works in Kent

Detectives searching for the teenager have been informed and a post-mortem examination is being carried out on Monday.

A spokesman for Kent Police said the death of the woman was being treated as suspicious, but it was "impossible to draw any conclusions at this stage".

Danielle's disappearance on 18 June 2001 prompted a huge public response with large numbers of locals turning out to help scour local heathland.

Her parents also took part in a number of witness appeals.

Her uncle Stuart Campbell is currently being held on remand charged with her murder.