Police are investigating after ‘human organs’ were found inside a container in a park in south London.
The disturbing discovery was made by a member of the public at around 4.30pm yesterday in Rosehill Park, Sutton.
The Met is now forensically examining the container to determine whether the remains belong to a human or an animal.
Officers are guarding a cordon in the park while the investigation takes place.
The 32-acre park is popular with local families and located next to St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary‘s Hospital for Children.
The disturbing discovery was made by a member of the public at around 4.30pm yesterday in Rosehill Park, Sutton
A Met spokesman said: ‘Police were called at approximately 4.30pm on Wednesday, July 24 by a member of the public who reported finding a container in Rosehill Park, Sutton containing what was described as human or animal organs inside.
‘The container has been secured by police and the contents will be forensically examined.
‘A scene remains in place at the location and enquiries into the circumstances continue.’
It comes as police in Sunderland continue their investigation into suspected human remains that were found on the banks of the River Wear.
Northumbria Police officers were seen yesterday on Wear Street in South Hylton, with multiple police vehicles in attendance.
A Northumbria Police spokesperson said yesterday: ‘At around 10.05am today, we received a report of suspected human remains having been discovered on the riverbank near Wear Street in South Hylton.
‘Emergency services are currently in attendance at the scene to carry out enquiries.’
The force said today it did not have a further update and that ‘reports of this nature can take a while to deal with’. Â
Police in Sunderland launched an investigation after finding human remains on a riverbank yesterdayÂ
Northumbria Police officers were seen on Wear Street, in South Hylton, yesterdayÂ
Yostin Andres Mosquera was last week charged with the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, after their remains were found in two bloody suitcases abandoned in Bristol.
Detectives made the grisly discovery after two suitcases were allegedly dumped on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol before further remains were found at the victims’ flat in Scotts Road, west London.
The two men had previously been in a relationship and still lived together at the flat in Shepherd’s Bush. They were known to the suspect, who had been staying with them for a short period of time, police said.
Mr Longworth was British and Mr Alfonso was originally from France but had obtained British citizenship.
Police said that they do not believe there was a ‘homophobic motive’ from the evidence gathered so far, but they have initially categorised the incident as a ‘hate crime’ under national guidelines.
