Murdered woman with flower tattoo is identified after 31 years
Daily Express|November 15, 2023
A MURDER victim known only as 'the woman with the flower tattoo' has finally been identified, three decades on.
Paul Jeeves
Murdered woman with flower tattoo is identified after 31 years

Rita Roberts was 31 when she went missing in Belgium. Her body was found dumped in a river in Antwerp in 1992, just months after she moved to the city from Cardiff. Her killer has never been found.

Rita's family last heard from her that May, when she sent them a postcard. But on June 3, police pulled her body from the Groot Schijn river, near Antwerp's Sportpaleis.

At the time of her death, Rita was wearing distinctive neon sports clothes and had a tattoo on her left forearm of a black flower with the words 'R'Nick' inscribed.

Heartbreaking

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