A MURDER investigation has been launched today (Tuesday 24) after police confirmed the badly-decomposed body of Warrington teenager Shafilea Ahmed was hidden in the River Kent.
Cheshire Police spokesman Lindsey Clarke said police believed the body had been hidden at the scene, at Sedgwick, south of Kendal, for months and possibly since the night she disappeared.
She added a post mortem examination could not reveal the cause of death but evidence from the scene suggested someone had put her body there.
She could not say what clues revealed her body had been concealed there.
DNA test results earlier revealed the body to be that of Miss Ahmed, matching a sample of her DNA taken as part of the missing person investigation.
Seventeen-year-old Miss Ahmed went missing last September after she had received throat injuries from drinking bleach.
A police investigation to determine the identity of the body in the Kent included dozens of officers from both Cheshire and Cumbria Police and specialist diver teams were involved in a bid to solve the mystery.
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