Police searching for missing teenager Alice Gross have found a body in the River Brent in west London, Scotland Yard has said.
The body has been removed from the scene and the 14-year-old's family are aware of the development.
Scotland Yard said Commander Graham McNulty will make a statement on Wednesday morning.
"Formal identification awaits and a post-mortem examination will be scheduled in due course," a Scotland Yard statement said.
"We ask the media give Alice's family and friends the privacy they require at this difficult time."
More than 300 officers have been involved in the hunt for Alice, who failed to return to her home in Hanwell, west London, on 28 August.
She was last seen on CCTV walking along the towpath of the Grand Union Canal towards Hanwell at 4.26pm that day.
A stretch of canal was searched in the hope of finding possessions such as her iPhone - but no new leads were discovered.
Later the RAF was drafted in to help identify new search areas.
On Saturday, officers revealed that footage from 300 CCTV cameras within a six-square-mile radius was being analysed.
Police received 150 phone calls after staging a reconstruction of the teenager's last-known movements.
On Monday, the operation moved to the National Trust-owned Osterley Park, in west London.
Alice's mother, Rosalind Hodgkiss, said last week: "This has obviously been a very distressing time for the whole family and every morning as Alice's disappearance grows longer and longer brings new agony, new anguish.
"We're coping as best we can and we're trying to keep hopeful.
"We've had a lot of support from the community, our family and friends, the Facebook page and the police, and we're making an appeal today to Alice, if she can hear us, that we want her to come home, that we miss her and love her."
Convicted murderer Arnis Zalkalns, who was filmed cycling along the same route behind Alice, has emerged as the prime suspect in the case.
The Latvian builder was reported missing within days of her disappearance, but police stress he is just "one line of enquiry".
Zalkalns worked at a building site in Isleworth, west London, and is thought to have come to the UK in 2007.
Authorities have been criticised for apparently holding no record of his conviction for bludgeoning and stabbing his wife Rudite to death in Latvia.
He is described as white, 5ft 10in and stocky, with dark brown hair that he normally wears tied in a ponytail.
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