Police trying to find Abdul Ezedi discover two our bodies within the Thames

Police began looking out the Thames for the physique of Clapham assault suspect Abdul Ezedi have as a substitute discovered two our bodies unconnected to the fugitive suspect.

Police imagine Ezedi entered the river hours after dousing his ex-partner and her two daughters with a corrosive substance.

Detectives imagine that the 35-year-old entered the water close to Chelsea Bridge in west London after finishing up the horrific assault on January 31.

Marine Policing Unit boats have been pictured on the Thames as officers seek for a physique.

On Saturday, police discovered one man’s physique close to HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge, at 10.13am, and one other man’s physique close to Limehouse, east London at 10.39am, lower than half an hour later.

Both males’s deaths are being handled as surprising and the police are working to determine them to allow them to inform their family. 

Ezedi, from the Newcastle space, has not been since he allegedly poured a powerful alkali on his ex-partner, and injured her two younger youngsters, aged three and eight, in Clapham, south London.

The mother-of-two remains to be in a vital situation and sedated in hospital, with police revealing that she was ‘too poorly to talk’ as a consequence of her ‘vital accidents’. 

Both youngsters have been discharged from hospital after witnesses additionally stated the three-year-old woman was ‘slammed to the bottom’.

The Met stated yesterday its principal working speculation was the attacker had ‘gone into’ the River Thames after being seen leaning over the railings of Chelsea Bridge on the evening of the incident earlier than disappearing from view.

He was final seen at 11.27pm on Chelsea Bridge – round 4 hours after the assault on Lessar Avenue in Clapham. He was by no means seen leaving the bridge space.

In a briefing at Scotland Yard, Commander Jon Savell stated: ‘We have spent the final 24 hours meticulously following the CCTV, and it is our principal working speculation that he is now gone into the water.

‘We have checked out the entire out there cameras and angles, and with the help of Transport for London and CCTV from buses that have been travelling over the bridge on the related time and there’s no sighting of him coming off the bridge.’

Asked whether or not police have been prepared to say that Ezedi was lifeless, Detective Superintendent Rick Sewart stated: ‘I’m ready to say that he is gone into the water and if he is gone into the water then that is essentially the most possible consequence.’

The lady had been in a relationship with Ezedi, with the breakdown of the connection a attainable motive for the assault.

Police stated it was attainable they might by no means discover Ezedi’s physique because of the velocity of the present within the Thames.

He advised the briefing: ‘At this time of 12 months, the Thames could be very quick flowing, very huge and filled with plenty of snags.

‘It is kind of seemingly that if he has gone within the water, he will not seem for possibly as much as a month and it is not past risk that he could by no means really floor.’

Mr Savell stated the pressure have been in touch with a member of Ezedi’s household.

Mr Sewart stated the Met had tracked Ezedi’s actions from the Tower Hill space, the place he has walked greater than 4 miles ‘with objective’ to Chelsea Bridge.

He continued: ‘When he has acquired to the realm of Chelsea Bridge, his behaviour visibly seems to vary in a lot as he walked up and down the bridge – he pauses within the midpoint of the bridge, midway down the bridge.

‘Then he walked to and from the facet of the bridge and might be seen to type of lean over the railings earlier than there’s a lack of sight.’

Police stated that Ezedi would have been in an ‘extraordinary quantity of ache’ along with his ‘vital accidents’ after finishing up ‘essentially the most horrific assault’.

They described how he travelled from Tower Hill, the place he was seen leaving the Tube, to Chelsea Bridge.

Mr Savell added: ‘He walks purposefully. Halfway throughout Chelsea Bridge he pauses and paces backwards and forwards in the direction of the railings, in addition to trying over them, it is a change in behaviour. Then he’s misplaced from sight.

‘We have been carefully liaising with a wide range of specialists by the National Crime Agency all through the course of this investigation. Those specialists have thought-about our newest info. 

‘At that point of evening, right now of 12 months, and coming into the water from the center of a bridge at top, the possibilities of Ezedi surviving are extraordinarily distant. The Thames present could be very sturdy which is a further issue.’

A manhunt to seek out him has been ongoing for greater than every week, with officers raiding two addresses linked to Ezedi in Newcastle within the early hours of Thursday.

Earlier this week police stated the final confirmed sighting was simply earlier than 11.30pm on January 31, a number of hours after the assault, as he crossed over Chelsea Bridge and entered Battersea Park in central London, then crossed again over the identical bridge minutes later.

Ezedi got here to the UK hidden in a lorry in 2016, and was turned down twice for asylum earlier than efficiently interesting towards the Home Office rejection by claiming he had transformed to Christianity.

He was convicted of two sexual offences in 2018 however was allowed to remain within the UK as a result of his crimes weren’t severe sufficient to fulfill the edge for deportation.

A tribunal decide is known to have dominated in favour of his asylum declare in 2020 after a retired Baptist church minister confirmed he had transformed to Christianity, reportedly describing Ezedi as ‘wholly dedicated’ to his new faith.

Ezedi, who shouldn’t be the daddy of the youngsters who have been damage, suffered vital facial accidents within the incident which police beforehand stated may show deadly if left untreated.

Around 500 individuals throughout the county have known as police with details about Ezedi and his attainable whereabouts for the reason that incident occurred. 

Last week, Nick Aldworth a former nationwide counter-terrorism co-ordinator with 36 years’ expertise within the police and army, stated it was is ‘not unlikely’ Ezedi may have taken his personal life.

He advised BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘I feel if we have not seen or heard from him within the the final couple of days, which seems to be the case, he is gone to floor, presumably supported by any individual… 

‘Or – it is not unlikely or unbelievable – that he could have taken his personal life. There is subsequently a physique to be discovered someplace.’

Police stated Ezedi left Newcastle within the early hours of Wednesday and travelled south to London and was within the Tooting space by round 6.30am.

His automobile was seen once more in Croydon, south London, at round 4.30pm and by round 7pm he was in Streatham.

Ezedi allegedly threw the youthful youngster to the bottom throughout the assault at 7.25pm, earlier than making an attempt to drive away from the scene, crashing right into a stationary automobile and fleeing on foot.

Minutes later he boarded a Tube prepare at Clapham South Underground station, and by 8pm he was at King’s Cross Tube station.

Ezedi was caught on CCTV at Tesco Express at 8.42pm earlier than he caught a Victoria Line prepare south at King’s Cross at 9pm. 16 minutes later he left Victoria on an eastbound District Line prepare.

At 9.33pm, Ezedi is seen leaving Tower Hill station and an hour later CCTV has him heading south on Westminster Bridge. At 11pm, he he noticed heading north throughout Vauxhall Bridge.

And at 11.25, police have launched CCTV of Ezedi coming into Battersea Park earlier than crossing Chelsea Bridge. He was not seen leaving after this.  

Police say three members of the general public who got here to the help of the household throughout the assault, two aged of their 30s and one in her 50s, have all been discharged from hospital with minor burns.

MailOnline has contacted the Met Police for remark.