The head of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie has been found in a canal, Scotland Yard confirmed on Wednesday.
Her headless and limbless body was discovered in Regent's Canal in Hackney, east London in March this year.
Subsequently other body parts were found, but it was only on Sunday that members of the public discovered a bag in the water at Kingsland Basin that contained a head.
On Wednesday police confirmed that they had identified the 29-year-old using dental records, and her family have been told.
Her brother Tony McCluskie, 35, from east London, is due to face trial for her murder at the Old Bailey in November.
All of her body has now been found and a post mortem was carried out on Tuesday but did not give a cause of death. Investigators are waiting for the results of further tests.
The canal is being searched for items of Miss McCluskie's personal property.
Miss McCluskie, who played Kerry Skinner in the BBC soap in 2001, had been missing for a week after attending the £650 million opening of the new Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.
She was last seen returning to the home in Pelter Street, Hackney, that she shared with her brother Tony McCluskie.
Friends launched extensive searches across east London in a bid to find her, and former EastEnders co-stars Natalie Cassidy and Brooke Kinsella both appealed for help on Twitter.
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PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted: 12/09/2012 16:02 Updated: 12/09/2012 19:53