Missing Alice Gross has left her parents ‘completely devastated’ after police found her body in a river in west London late on Tuesday night (September 30).
Scotland Yard announced that the investigation was now a hunt for the 14-year-old’s killer as detectives intensified their search for their prime suspect, Arnis Zalkalns, 41, after Alice’s body was discovered in the river Brent near where she was last seen.
In a statement, the victim’s parents, Jose Gross and Rosalind Hodgkiss, said: “We have been left completely devastated by the recent developments and it is difficult to comprehend that our sweet and beautiful daughter was the victim of a terrible crime. Why anyone would want to hurt her is something that we are struggling to come to terms with.”