Dead 'woman with the flower tattoo' mystery solved after 31 years
A woman killed 31 years ago in Belgium has been identified after a family member recognised details of her distinctive flower tattoo.
Interpol said the cold case was known as "the woman with the flower tattoo" because of the artwork on her left arm.
The case dated back to June 3, 1992, when a woman's body was found against a grate in the Groot Schijn River in the Deurne district of Antwerp.
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The case of "the woman with the flower tattoo", dated back to 3 June 1992 when a woman's body was found against a grate in the Groot Schijn River in Antwerp. Interpol
She was finally identified as Rita Roberts, a 31-year-old British woman, following a joint appeal for help in more than 20 cold cases by Interpol and police in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
A family member in the UK recognised details of her tattoo — a black flower with green leaves — on the news and contacted police.
The appeal for information in May covered 22 cases across the three countries.
Most of them involved women who were killed.
Roberts had moved to Antwerp from Cardiff in Wales.
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Rita Roberts' family spotted her distinctive tattoo in a news report Interpol
She last had contact with relatives with a postcard she sent in May 1992.
Her family said that although the news was difficult to process, they were grateful to know what happened to her.
"This cross-border collaboration has given a missing girl back her identity, and enabled the family to know she is at rest," the family said in a statement.
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