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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Interpol campaign to identify remains of women in Europe expands to 46 cases

Interpol released images of 'the girl with the 10 pence coin' found France in 1982, Rita Roberts, a British woman found 31 years ago in Belgium and identified through the  appeal, and 'the woman who wasn’t alone', found in a hotel room in Spain in 1999
Rita Roberts (centre), whose body was identified last November, and two of the women yet to be identified, referred to by Interpol as (left) ‘the girl with the 10-pence coin’ and (right) ‘the woman who wasn’t alone’. Photograph: Interpol

Police have expanded a cold-case campaign aimed at identifying dozens of women who were murdered or who died in suspicious circumstances across Europe, taking in three new countries and more than doubling the number of cases.

The international policing organisation Interpol said on Tuesday that forces from France, Italy and Spain had joined those in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, which last year launched Operation Identify Me to help name 22 female victims.

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