TV host found dead

A body believed to be that of missing children's TV presenter Mark Speight has been found in a remote area of a London railway station, police said yesterday.

British Transport Police were called to Paddington Railway Station at 10 a.m. yesterday following the discovery of the body.

The dead man was not struck by a train and the death is being treated as unexplained, British Transport Police said in a statement. The body had yet to be formally identified.

Police said on Tuesday that Mr Speight, 42, had been reported missing two months after his fiancée's death.

He was last seen boarding a southbound Bakerloo line train from Queen's Park station last Monday.

Mr Speight, who hosted the BBC art show SMart, was questioned by police over the death of his fiancée Natasha Collins, 31, at their St John's Wood home in January.

Westminster Coroner Paul Knapman recorded a verdict of death by misadventure at an inquest last week. The court heard that Ms Collins died in a scalding hot bath after taking cocaine and sleeping pills and drinking vodka.

Mr Speight was briefly held on suspicion of her murder before detectives "cancelled" his arrest and said he was not a suspect.

A statement released by his lawyers at the time of Ms Collins' death, said Mr Speight was "absolutely distraught".