POLICE are searching a landfill site in Newark for the head and arms of a Notts murder victim.
The decapitated body of Kevin Kennedy, 50, was found on overgrown land between Rossington Road and Burrows Court, Sneinton, on August 8.
The murder inquiry now centres on Staple Quarry landfill site, at Grange Lane, Newark, where refuse lorries take rubbish from kerbside collections and commercial and industrial waste.
The search, which began earlier this week, is expected to last a month.
A police spokesperson said: "We can confirm that a search of an area at a landfill site in Newark is due to be carried out over the next four weeks.
"The search is being made in connection with the murder of Kevin Kennedy. Mr Kennedy's body was found on land between Rossington Road and Burrows Court, in Sneinton, on Wednesday, August, 8 2012, and was missing body parts, namely his head and arms.
"A number of searches and enquiries are ongoing to locate them and this includes the search of the landfill site.
"Anyone with any information, or who believes they may have found body parts, is asked to contact Nottinghamshire Police on 101."
The tip is owned and operated by FCC Environment.
The company said: "Staple Quarry landfill site accepts residual household, commercial and industrial waste from Nottinghamshire and neighbouring counties, processing approximately 200,000 tonnes per year."
Police declined to comment on the theory that the body parts may have been dumped in a bin in Sneinton, which had then been taken to the tip.
A post-mortem examination into the cause of Kennedy's death was inconclusive.
Peter Healy, 50, of Lord Nelson Street, Sneinton, has been charged with murdering Mr Kennedy, causing actual bodily harm and theft.
Tara Swift, 40, of West Street, in Leicester, has also been charged with Mr Kennedy's murder.
They are next due to appear in court in January.
