The mystery around a British woman murdered in Amsterdam 31-years-ago deepens as an old school friend has come forward with new information.
31-year-old Rita Roberts, know as the ‘woman with the flower tattoo’, was violently killed and her body was dumped in the Het Groot Schijn river in Antwerp, Belgium, on June 3, 1992.
However, she remained nameless for over three decades until an international appeal for information from Interpol lead to her identification this year because of her distinctive flower tattoo.
Now an unnamed person has come forward saying they were told she drowned in a canal in Amsterdam thirty years ago.
‘I was confused to see the stories about Rita because I was told she had drowned in a canal in Amsterdam 30 years ago,’ the school friend told the Mirror.
‘I got on with my life not thinking anything other than it was a tragedy.
‘I don’t know why this has only come out now.’
This friend is now working with the police to see if it will help catch Ms Roberts killer.
Ms Roberts had moved there from Cardiff and her last known correspondence was a postcard sent home in May 1992.
When an appeal to uncover her identity began in May this year, detectives described her as being aged between 20 and 50 years old, around 170cm in height and of a stout build.
She had light-skin and had mid-length dark hair, and was wearing a t-shirt and dark blue Adidas training trousers.
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