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Feltham scrap dealer arrested over Milly murder

Posted by Ed Saunt on Oct 30, 09 05:08 PM in Crime

A Feltham scrap dealer who police believe disposed of a car used in the murder of Milly Dowler has been arrested.

Nirmal Gharu, 40, who used to own an MOT test centre in Hampton Road West, is thought to have disposed of a red Daewoo Nexia car which police think was used to transport the 13-year-old's body.

Amanda Dowler, who was known to family and friends as Milly, vanished while walking home from school in Walton-on-Thames on March 21, 2002. Six months later, her skeletal remains were found 30 miles away by mushroom pickers in Yateley Heath, Hampshire.

Gharu - who is a friend of prime suspect and convicted serial killer Levi Bellfield - voluntarily attended a police station on Tuesday, where he was arrested and questioned before being released on bail until December 21. He was previously arrested, questioned and released in August.

Earlier this month police divers searched Bedfont Lakes for the red car after an anonymous tip-off but found nothing of any relevance.

In October Crown Prosecution Service solicitors were handed a dossier of evidence by Surrey Police connecting Bellfield with Milly's murder and are still considering whether to charge him.

The 41-year-old former nightclub bouncer and wheel clamper, who grew up in Hanworth, admitted earlier this year that he had been driving the car on the day Milly disappeared. He is currently serving a life sentence for killing Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19.

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