A woman was found murdered after an armed robbery suspect lead police to the house where her body was.

Police were called to reports of an armed robbery in Asda last night in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

Officers arrested the 37-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of murder and seized a knife.

West Yorkshire Police said he told them there was a dead woman, in her 20s, at a property in Batley which was later found in Norfolk Street.

She is yet to be formally identified.