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25 March 2011
Last updated at 01:43 ET
Police are searching for a second body after arresting a man in Wiltshire on suspicion of kidnap and two murders.
A body, believed to be that of missing Sian O'Callaghan, was found on Thursday in Oxfordshire and police said they knew the location of a second victim.
Miss O'Callaghan, 22, had not been seen since she left a nightclub in Swindon early on Saturday morning.
A man, named locally as taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, was arrested at a supermarket on Thursday morning.
Police said they had arrested a man at an Asda store in north Swindon's Orbital Centre and he had identified the location of two bodies.
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."
Earlier, detectives suggested two people had been found, but a statement from Wiltshire Police issued later said: "The location of two bodies has been identified to the senior investigating officer, only one body has currently been found and this is believed to be Sian O'Callaghan.
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Det Supt Steve Fulcher announces the discovery of Sian's body
"The second body has yet to be recovered."
Miss O'Callaghan was last seen leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon on Saturday. Hundreds of people helped police search in Savernake Forest, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, from where a signal from her mobile phone had been picked up soon after she was last seen.
But the body police think is hers was found in undergrowth near Wantage in Oxfordshire, several miles north east of the woods.
Detectives have also been searching a site between Ashbury and Letcombe Regis, 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 was being guarded by a number of police officers.
And on Thursday afternoon police vans arrived at a house in Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, and a white tent was put up in the front garden.
Officers searched inside and outside the property and removed items to a nearby van. A green taxi was also taken away.
Detectives revealed earlier in the week that phone records put office administrator Miss O'Callaghan's mobile somewhere in Savernake Forest, 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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A body, believed to be that of missing Sian O'Callaghan, was found on Thursday in Oxfordshire and police said they knew the location of a second victim.
Miss O'Callaghan, 22, had not been seen since she left a nightclub in Swindon early on Saturday morning.
A man, named locally as taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, was arrested at a supermarket on Thursday morning.
Police said they had arrested a man at an Asda store in north Swindon's Orbital Centre and he had identified the location of two bodies.
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."
Earlier, detectives suggested two people had been found, but a statement from Wiltshire Police issued later said: "The location of two bodies has been identified to the senior investigating officer, only one body has currently been found and this is believed to be Sian O'Callaghan.
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.Det Supt Steve Fulcher announces the discovery of Sian's body
"The second body has yet to be recovered."
Miss O'Callaghan was last seen leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon on Saturday. Hundreds of people helped police search in Savernake Forest, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, from where a signal from her mobile phone had been picked up soon after she was last seen.
But the body police think is hers was found in undergrowth near Wantage in Oxfordshire, several miles north east of the woods.
Detectives have also been searching a site between Ashbury and Letcombe Regis, 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 was being guarded by a number of police officers.
And on Thursday afternoon police vans arrived at a house in Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, and a white tent was put up in the front garden.
Officers searched inside and outside the property and removed items to a nearby van. A green taxi was also taken away.
Detectives revealed earlier in the week that phone records put office administrator Miss O'Callaghan's mobile somewhere in Savernake Forest, 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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