Sian O'Callaghan search: Two bodies found
Police searching for missing Sian O'Callaghan have found her body - and another murder victim - and are questioning a man suspected of both killings.
The 47-year-old is also being quizzed on suspicion of kidnap. The 22-year-old woman was last seen leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon on Saturday.Miss O'Callaghan's family have been informed and are "deeply distressed".
The second body has yet to be recovered and identified, detectives said.
'Dignity they deserve'The news came hours after police seized a green taxi which was seen early on Saturday.
The Toyota Avensis estate with taxi markings was seen on Saturday between Swindon and Savernake Forest, where police had been searching with the help of hundreds of members of the public.
Det Supt Steve Fulcher said: "A 47-year-old man from Swindon is in custody, having been arrested for kidnap and two murders.
"The location of two bodies have been identified to me by this individual, one of whom has yet to be identified formally, but I am quite clear is Sian.
"I have informed Sian's family, who are obviously deeply distressed."
He added: "I want to recover these people and give them the dignity they deserve."
On Thursday morning police arrested a man at an Asda supermarket in north Swindon's Orbital Centre.
Then later in the afternoon police vans arrived at a house in Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, and a white tent put up in the front garden.
Officers are searching the inside and outside of the property and removing items to a nearby van.
Detectives are also searching a second location between Ashbury and Letcombe Regis, some seven miles east of Swindon and close to the Uffington White Horse, in Oxfordshire.
An area of the road and the verge has been sealed-off and is being guarded by a number of police officers.
Angus Tucker, the landlord at the Blowing Stone pub in Kingston Lisle, some five miles east of Ashbury, said customers had told him a section of the B4507 was cordoned off.
"I'm told there are quite a few police around," he added.
Detectives revealed earlier this week that phone records put office administrator Miss O'Callaghan's mobile somewhere in Savernake Forest, near Marlborough, 34 minutes after she left the nightclub - a journey they said could only have been made by car.
Miss O'Callaghan was caught on CCTV leaving Suju, in Swindon's Old Town area, after an evening out with female friends.
She lived in a flat half a mile away with her boyfriend Kevin Reape, 25.
Mr Reape, who had spent the day at Cheltenham races, raised the alarm on Saturday morning when she did not return to their flat.
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