Police believe this is the face of Stanley Park murder victim

Forensic experts have reconstructed the face of a woman whose remains were found in a park in Liverpool, prompting a murder investigation.

A body was discovered in a black bin bag in the walled garden of Stanley Park in Anfield on 28 August, and was believed to have been there for six weeks.

Despite repeated public appeals and door-knocking over 1,000 homes in the area, Merseyside Police officers have not yet been able to identify the victim.

Det Supt Rachel Wilson said she hoped the work by Liverpool John Moores University's Face Lab team could provide a breakthrough in the case.

"Thanks to Face Lab we have been able to provide a representative image of the woman," Wilson said.

"What we now need to do is to identify who this woman is."

The university Face Lab is combines art and science to reconstruct, depict, and help identify human faces, and was part of a British team which recreated the voice of King Richard III.

The director of Face Lab, Prof Caroline Wilkinson, said her team had produced an image of the woman's face based on a 3D model of her skull.

"This isn't a portrait," she said.

"But hopefully it looks enough like this individual that, if you knew her, it might spark a bit of recognition, a bit of memory.

"Then hopefully those people can give a name to the police and they can look into that and identify her."

The force said it had been able to establish a DNA profile for the woman, but there was no match on the national DNA database.

The woman also had no teeth, which meant it had not been possible to compare dental records.

Police said they had been able to establish the woman had osteoporosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and arthritis in her hands.

She was also malnourished, although it had not been possible to establish if that was due to her age or neglect.

"We are hoping that reference to the woman's medical conditions will jog someone's memory and assist us in identifying her," Det Ch Insp John Fitzgerald said.

"Whilst we believe the woman to be aged around 70, we have not ruled out that she could be slightly younger or older, and we would ask that people take that into consideration."

The woman was white, approximately 5ft 2in tall and of slight build and was found wearing a pink Nike T-shirt.

Anyone who recognises the description of the woman or could further assist with the investigation is asked to contact the force.

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