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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris

How Interpol traced the identity of ‘the woman with the flower tattoo’

Rita Roberts portrait
Rita Roberts moved from Cardiff to Antwerp in February 1992. Her body was found in a river in Belgium 31 years ago. Photograph: Antwerp Public Prosecutor's Office/AFP/Getty

For three decades, her body has lain far from the streets of Cardiff where she was known as a vibrant, kind-hearted, if troubled, young woman.

Earlier this year, thanks to a groundbreaking cross-border operation, she was given an identity of sorts – the woman with the flower tattoo – as police teams across three European countries and the global law enforcement force Interpol tried to get to the bottom of her murder and 21 others.

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