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Man charged over headless body

Police have charged a 45-year-old man with the murder of a man whose headless body was found behind a shopping centre.

Mohamed Boudjenane, of Kingsgate Road, Kilburn, north London, will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday.

The headless body, wrapped in blankets, was found by shoppers in a supermarket goods cage in Kingsgate Place, Kilburn, on Wednesday.

Police are still holding a man and a woman on suspicion of assisting an offender.

All three were arrested in Alvaston, Derby, on Friday.

A post-mortem examination on the body could not establish a cause of death.

Officers are still searching for the head and murder weapon.

The identity of the victim is unknown.

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