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POLICE FIND SECOND SEVERED HAND ON BEACH

Police investigating the discovery of a severed head have now found a second hand

Wednesday April 2,2008

By Emily Garnham for express.co.uk

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POLICE investigating the discovery of severed body parts on a beach have uncovered a second hand.

It is the third body part to be discovered on the Scottish beach in Arbroath, Angus since a head was found by two young girls yesterday.

The two sisters, aged five and six, were playing during their Easter school holidays when they discovered the head inside a plastic bag.

The gruesome find sparked a police investigation which resulted in the recovery of the first hand, just 50 yards from the severed head.

An extensive search of the area will resume after high tide and is due to be extended further along the shoreline next to Victoria Park and in the area towards the Signal Tower Museum.

Police search team on Arbroath beach after body parts were found yesterday and today

Detective Chief Inspector Graham McMillan, who is leading the investigation, said: "We're going to wait for the high tide to make the maximum benefits of the currents and tidal movements to hopefully give us some fresh evidence or leads."

Detectives have been trawling missing persons files in a bid to identify the dead woman as police conduct "painstaking" forensic tests on the body parts.

Police said at this stage she did not match any missing persons files from the Tayside Police force area and that recent heavy rains in the area made it difficult to tell how long - if at all - the head had been in the water.

A HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Crime Enquiry System) team has been set up to help with the investigation.

Tayside Police’s child protection team and Angus Council’s social work department are supporting the family of the two young girls who made the horrific find.

The girls’ mother, who did not want to be named, said today that her daughters were terrified after finding the grisly remains on the Seagate beach front and were being comforted by relatives.

She said: “I can’t say at the moment if they are going to be all right or not. They are very shaken up. They are worried that the person who did this to the woman could do it to them.”

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