A missing elderly woman may have been found dead locked up at an allotment.

Police were searching for an 80-year-old reported missing when they attended Colindale allotments by Sheaveshill Avenue in the early hours this morning (February 28).

A body was found in a lock-up around 2.05am and the woman was declared dead at the scene.

Formal identification has yet to take place, but the next of kin of the missing woman has been informed.

The death is currently being treated as suspicious as police make enquiries.