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A 37-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of Melanie Hall after he went to a police station in Manchester.
The development comes days after the remains of the 25-year-old graduate were found by a motorway more than a decade after she went missing in Bath.
Her bones were found in a bag by a workman clearing vegetation on the M5 slip road at junction 14, north of Bristol, on Monday.
Greater Manchester Police said this morning that a man had been arrested after walking in to a police station in Cheadle Heath at 2.45am yesterday.
A police spokesman said he was currently undergroing a mental health assessment.
Miss Hall's disappearance sparked a huge police inquiry and became one of the most high profile cases of the 1990s.
Yesterday Melanie's parents spoke of their “untold anguish” at the discovery.
The hospital worker was last seen in Cadillacs nightclub, in Walcot Street, Bath on June 9, 1996.
Her father Steve Hall, 65, an ex-chairman of Bath City from Bradford-on-Avon, said his “vibrant” daughter was now a “bag of bones”.
Mr Hall spoke of his “untold anguish” and said: “We desperately need to know what happened to Melanie.”
His wife Pat said: “I feel very angry her body has been dumped on the road like a sack of garbage.”
