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| A murder investigation is under way after the discovery of a woman's body in a suitcase in north London. | |
| The body was found by police searching a wooded area by a sports ground in East Mill Hill at about 5pm on Sunday, after they had been called by a member of the public. | |
| The Metropolitan police said the woman, who was white, had not been identified and a postmortem was due to take place on Tuesday afternoon. | |
| Detectives from the Met's homicide and serious crime unit are investigating. A cordon remains in place in the area where the body was found. | |
| DCI Nicola Wall said: "It's a suitcase, nothing extraordinary about that. It's not the biggest suitcase in the world. Who that body is I don't know. That's what we are trying to find out. | |
| "We have worked throughout the night and we are working as hard as we can to find out who is in that suitcase and how they came to be there. | |
| "We are in the early stages. There is a family out there and I don't want to give the wrong information and unnecessarily worry them." | |
| Local residents said the area sealed off included a footbridge crossing a brook behind a row of houses | |
| Donna Pickup, 42, who lives in the area, said she and her family had walked through the strip of woods an hour before the body was discovered. | |
| "It's awful. We saw police with sniffer dogs and quite a lot of police. It was all open when we walked through about 4pm. By five it was all closed off. | |
| "We could have walked past the poor woman without realising she was there. It's a big shock. There are lots of children and dog walkers who use the park." | |
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