This morning’s developments come after Labour MP Harriet Harman launched an appeal for information on her constituent over the weekend.

“Petra is missing, and we want people to help the police find her,” she said at a press conference held in her constituency of Camberwell on Saturday afternoon.

“She’s been missing for quite a few days now, she’s only 32, she’s from the Czech Republic, her parents of course are desperately worried about her, and I feel we’ve all got a particular responsibility to try and find her because she was away from her home country, away from her family, here working for our national health service.”

She visited the scene outside Brunswick Park this morning to lay flowers and pay her condolences.

Petra Srncova: a body has been found in the search for the missing nursing assistant