Boy's torso may be linked to Holland

London - Detectives are exploring possible links between the murder of a boy whose butchered body was found floating in the River…

London - Detectives are exploring possible links between the murder of a boy whose butchered body was found floating in the River Thames and a simi8lar case in the Netherlands last month.

They are also not ruling out the possibility that the child - whose head and limbs are still missing - was the victim of a paedophile gang or a religious cult.

The unidentified Afro-Caribbean boy, who was thought to have been aged five, died from a violent blow to the neck.

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