Man charged with women’s murders

POLICE investigating the discovery of body parts found dumped in rubbish bins last night charged an unemployed London man with the murders of three women.

Anthony John Hardy, 51, of Hartland House, Royal College Street, Camden, north London, was charged with the murders of prostitute Elizabeth Valad and another unidentified woman, whose body parts were found wrapped in black bags nearly a week ago.

He was also charged with the murder of Sally Rose White, who died in January last year at an address in Royal College Street.

A post mortem examination at the time showed that she died of a heart attack, but significant new evidence has now led to the murder charge. Hardy was due to appear before magistrates in Hendon this morning. Police yesterday named Miss Valad, originally from Nottingham, as one of the women whose body parts were found by a tramp foraging for food last Monday.

The 29-year-old, who was also known as Liz or Lizzy, was identified by her breast implants.

Parts of her legs were found but her head and hands are still missing. Police have still to formally identify a 36-year-old woman whose body parts were also found in bins behind the College Arms pub in Camden.

The investigation began when police were informed that severed limbs had been taken to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Camden by their finder, prompting major searches in the area which turned up more body parts.