More human remains found in bags

Police are continuing to search the area

Police have discovered more bin bags full of human body parts near the London street where a tramp earlier stumbled over the remains of a woman and a teenage girl.

Officers searching rubbish bins at the back of a pub in Camden Town, unearthed the lower torso of a young woman in a wheelie bin about 100 yards from the original discovery.

We won't know if these additional remains are part of the first two people until later on Tuesday

New Scotland Yard

Seven or eight other plastic bags left near the College Arms pub in Royal College Street, contained further body parts.

All the remains have been taken to St Pancras mortuary, where they will be examined on New Year's Day.

Earlier, parts of two legs of a woman were found by a tramp foraging in the rubbish bins.

A second bin bag which contained a torso of a girl, who may have been as young as 14, was discovered nearby.

The area is cordoned off and a search is continuing.

Police are sifting through hundreds of bin bags

A spokesman for New Scotland Yard told BBC News Online: "We won't know if these additional remains are part of these two people until later on Tuesday.

"Until then, we can't say if it indicates a new body or not."

A pathologist who conducted a post-mortem examination at St Pancras mortuary on Monday evening concluded that the legs belonged to a white woman, possibly in her 30s.

The examination was unable to establish a cause of death, and further tests are awaited.

Police believe both victims, who may have been mother and daughter, were killed during the last week.

Detectives believe the last bin collection from the area was last Friday and some of the body parts could have already been collected.

Bin collections have been stopped until all the bags have been searched.

'Extensive search'

The landlady of the College Arms, Rachel Musarati, 35, said: "The police told me that the body parts have been found in my bin. It's disturbing, I'm horrified."

Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook said: "There is an extensive search going to try to find the remainder of the bodies as well as extensive house-to-house to identify the victims."

More than 40 officers are working on the case and inquiries are being carried out on a large housing estate near the pub.

Police have already searched databases of missing people, but have so far found no lead, Mr Cook said.

He urged anyone who knows of a woman and teenage girl who were missing to contact police.

"It could be that they are mother and daughter but who knows," he added.

He said it would be up to 48 hours before laboratory tests could indicate whether they were related.

Detectives are appealing for anyone who has any information or who saw anything suspicious in the area to contact them.