A BODY has been found in the gruesome search for missing Huddersfield woman Sarah Mournian.
A house in Fartown and a waste tip near York have both been searched in the hunt for the 32-year-old, who vanished last September.
Kevin Newton, 40, has been charged with her murder and remanded in custody.
His home on Grisedale Avenue, off Grimscar Avenue in Birkby, had been the focus of an intensive police search.
Officers swooped on the terraced home in mid-January and arrested Newton. He was quizzed for several days before he was charged with killing Sarah.
At that time the home had been under constant police guard, with a white forensics tent outside before it was eventually boarded up.
Now it is understood that specialist search times have returned to the house and a macabre discovery was made yesterday.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “As part of the searches a body has been recovered at an address in Huddersfield.’’
That address is believed to be Grisedale Avenue.
Now the big question is have the police found Sarah?
A forensic post-mortem was carried out on the remains last night.
Meanwhile, a search is still going on at the tip near York.
Officers arrived in force at the landfill site at Rufforth on Monday, February 4. They have been carrying out an intensive search there since then.
The 125-acre site, operated by North Yorkshire recycling and waste management company Yorwaste, is called Harewood Whin. It is next to Rufforth Airfield on the B1224 York to Wetherby Road.
Detectives have pinpointed a particular area of the site and have been digging it out and then carrying out detailed searches of the rubbish.
Yorwaste recycling and external affairs manager John Miller said: “The police are still on site and have been since the beginning of February. We did take some waste here from the Huddersfield area, which is unusual.’’
The waste was brought to the site by a contractor.
The investigation is being carried out by detectives from West Yorkshire Police’s Homicide and Major Enquiry Team, led by Det Supt Andy Brennan, who is also in charge of the hunt for missing Dewsbury nine-year-old Shannon Matthews.
At the time of Sarah’s disappearance police launched a missing person inquiry.
She is white, 5ft 4ins tall with brown hair.
When last seen she was wearing a green or khaki-coloured jacket, a blue jumper, a black denim mini-skirt with orange stitching and black knee-length boots. She was carrying a black rucksack- type bag.
