Arnis Zalkalns battered and stabbed his first wife to death in March 1997 before burying her body in remote woodland in the capital Riga

Zalkalns, 41, who had previously served seven years for murdering his wife Rudite in Latvia, was found hanged in nearby Boston Manor Park on October 4, four weeks after he was reported missing. Under EU rules, Arnis ­Zalkalns was allowed to ­settle in Britain in 2007 despite spending seven years behind bars in his homeland. Latvian police are cooperating fully with the UK police in the search for Zalkalns," Latvian state Police spokesman Toms Sadovskis told LSM. Arnis Zalkalns would have been charged by police for the murder of 14-year-old Alice Gross had he not died last year, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. It is understood he murdered his wife. Today his wife’s mother Viktorija Zalkalns, 70, condemned the seven-year sentence he served as disgracefully short. "Arnis Zalkalns does have a previous conviction for murdering his wife in 1997.