Second body found in search for missing Aberdeen sisters
Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths
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Eliza and Henrietta, both aged 32, were last seen on CCTV on Market Street at Victoria Bridge in Aberdeen near the River Dee at about 02.12 on 7 January.
A woman’s body was recovered from the river at around 8am on Friday and while formal identification has yet to take place, the sisters’ family in Hungary has been informed.
The body of a second woman was found in an area of the river near Victoria Bridge at around 9.05pm on Friday and was recovered from the water, police said.
The woman has yet to be identified but the Huszti family has been informed. Police said inquiries are ongoing to establish what happened but there are no apparent suspicious circumstances.
A text message was sent from Henrietta’s mobile phone to the sisters’ landlady at 02.12 on 7 January, from the area of Victoria Bridge, indicating they would not be returning to the flat.
The phone was then disconnected from the network and has not been active since, police said.
The following day, the sisters’ personal belongings were found inside the flat and the landlady reported her concerns to police.
Eliza and Henrietta’s family issued desperate appeals in the past few weeks as the search continued.
Their brother Joszef Huszti told the BBC that relatives do not understand their disappearance, adding their mother had a phone call with the sisters just days beforehand when everything appeared normal.
“We don't understand this whole thing,” he said. “That they wrote a message to their landlady, that they wanted to immediately end their tenancy agreement.
“We didn’t have any information about that. So that’s the strange thing, that the girls didn’t tell us anything about that. They never mentioned any such plan.”
The third sister in the set of triplets, Edit Huszti, confirmed she had spoken to the pair on New Year’s Eve, describing them as happy and cheerful on a video call.