International appeal on 22 decades-old murder cases receives hundreds of tip-offs

Operation Identify Me has received over 200 tip-offs since it was launched last week

An international appeal searching for information on the murders of 22 women has received over 200 tip-offs.

Named Operation Identify Me, the appeal was instigated to help identify tens of women murdered across Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The majority are cold cases, with the murders dating between 1976 and 2019.

122 tips were received for the cases in Germany, 55 in Belgium, and 51 in the Netherlands (Interpol)