Vic: Police keep hunting for second leg in bay

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2009
Vic: Police keep hunting for second leg in bay

MELBOURNE, Aug 18 AAP - Police yet to find a second human leg that was spotted in Victoria's
Port Phillip Bay a day after a woman's left leg was found in a separate part of coast.

The leg that was found at Newhaven Beach at Phillip Island on Sunday at midday (AEST)
belonged to an adult woman, Homicide Squad Inspector Steve Clark said on Tuesday.

"There was also a fairly distinctive tattoo on the foot of the leg that was recovered,"

he told reporters.

"It's a floral design and fairly distinctive.

"Clearly we're very keen to talk to anybody who may recognise that tattoo.

"Anybody with any information or who may have seen anything suspicious occurring in
those areas I would urge them to contact Crimestopppers as soon as possible and we'll
follow that up."

An image of the tattoo has been publicly released.

Forensics investigators believed the leg had not been in the water for very long, Det
Insp Clark said.

Passengers on the Queenscliff to Sorrento ferry reported seeing a leg floating in Port
Phillip Bay off Sorrento about 2pm (AEST) on Monday.

A search is being currently undertaken involving water police, the air wing and SES
and police will re-assess the situation late on Tuesday.

Police across the state have been alerted about the discoveries and are trawling through
missing persons reports but "nothing was jumping out at this stage".

Det Insp Clark said he believed reports about seeing the second leg were genuine and not a hoax.

Bodies were found in the bay earlier this year, with a man's body off the Mornington
Peninsula and another on a beach at French Island.

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