Police investigating the disappearance of a woman 12 years ago have found human remains in a garden in Luton.
Natalia Doherty was 50 when she disappeared in 2003. This year detectives said they believed she had been murdered.
Last week a search began of a garden in Icknield Way, Luton. Early indications are that the remains are female, though they have not yet been formally identified.
A 66-year-old man from Luton previously arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and preventing a lawful burial was on Wednesday arrested on suspicion of murder.
A 39-year-old man from Luton has also been arrested on suspicion of murder. Both are in police custody. A 71-year-old man from Port Glasgow, Scotland, remains on bail on suspicion of assisting an offender and preventing a lawful burial.
Doherty’s family have been informed of the discovery and are being supported by police.
The last confirmed sighting of Doherty was on 15 April 2003 in Eastbourne, where she was then living, but it is known she went to stay with her ex-husband Gerald Doherty in the Regents Arms pub in Luton around this time.
Proof of life enquiries have since failed to show any sign she is alive and an investigation was launched by detectives in 2014.
