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

‘Woman with the flower tattoo’ killed in Antwerp in 1992 is identified as Briton

An Interpol composite showing Rita Roberts and the tattoo that helped to identify her body.
An Interpol composite showing Rita Roberts and the tattoo that helped to identify her body. Photograph: Interpol/PA

A woman’s body found 31 years ago in Antwerp has been identified as that of a British national, Rita Roberts, after police appealed to the public for help in identifying 22 women murdered in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany over the past 50 years.

Operation Identify Me was launched in May by the Belgian, Dutch and German police, which, with Interpol, the international policing organisation, released details of the cases that would normally only be available to law enforcement agencies.

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