INVESTIGATORS from a new cold case team have begun to unravel the ‘ring of mystery’ surrounding a body washed up on a beach on the Isles of Scilly more than 40 years ago.
We require the assistance from the Greek Cypriot community to find out the identity of a man who was found on a beach in 1979 believed to be Greek or Greek Cypriot.
The team from Locate International is using the latest computer mapping techniques and social media networks in an effort to work out the identity of the man who wore a wedding ring inscribed ‘Georgio and Katrina 1956’. He was found on February 21 1979 at Porth Minick beach on St Mary’s, the largest of the five inhabited islands 40 kilometres off the south western tip of Cornwall.
The investigators found a Cypriot couple with the same first names as the inscribed on the ring they were married in 1956 but are still alive.
The man was believed to have been born between the world wars, and was aged between 40 and 60. He had been in the water for at least four months. He was white and about five-foot-four-inches tall with dark brown, greying hair. He wore a two-tone blue and white short-sleeved shirt with a woollen Eltex vest underneath. Crucially, he wore the gold band – believed to be a wedding ring – on the ring finger of his right hand.
Emma Tilley, who is heading the Locate team working on the Porth Minick mystery, said: “I felt immediately compelled to help drive this case forwards. “A lost love. An unidentified person. Possibly someone’s grandad, dad, brother.
“During the current times, human connection is longed for and social media use has heightened. “I believe we can use this global societal change to gain answers and find the loved ones of Georgio and Katrina. “We need to find ways to help families who may still be searching for a missing loved one. “We can only achieve this through the dedication of people who are willing to give their time and skills to this cause.
“I urge you to help in uncovering any information that might solve the ring of mystery.” Locate International is working closely with Devon and Cornwall Police and the National Crime Agency’s UK Missing Person Unit to find new clues to the ‘ring of mystery’. It was created to re-examine some of more than 1,000 cases of unidentified bodies found in the United Kingdom every year.
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