The garden of a jailed paedophile near London is being dug up by police in a hunt for the remains of two children.
Officers were called to the home in Croydon after an anonymous tip-off in a letter, police said.
The Sunnewspaper said that pensioner Leslie Ford-Thrussell lived at the house before he was jailed for 12 years for assaulting children aged 13 and under.
He reportedly admitted seven counts of taking and making obscene images and was convicted of 37 crimes, including rape and indecent assault, between 1986 and 2003.
The letter alleged Ford-Thrussell had murdered two children and buried their bodies in the back garden of the semi-detached home, the newspaper said.
Police said the alleged murders were said to have happened more than 30 years ago. No one was living at the property.
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