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Sandringham New Year murder riddle: Is this young woman the victim?
Latvian Alisa Dmitrijeva, 17, vanished last summer
Police say it is unlikely death was result of natural causes
Tests show body is of white woman who could be as young as 15
Discovery close to Royal Stud where Queen oversees racehorse breeding

By Arthur Martin

Last updated at 2:51 AM on 5th January 2012



The body found on the Queen’s estate at Sandringham could be a girl as young as 15, police said yesterday.

And fears were growing that it could be a 17-year-old student missing in the area since last August.





A murder investigation was launched after the remains were discovered by a dog walker in a copse close to where the Royal Family had gathered for their Boxing Day shoot.

Yesterday police described the body as that of a white woman, aged between 15 and 23.

The body had been lying on the Norfolk estate for between one month and four months.

Detectives are examining missing person cases to see if they can find a match.




These include the disappearance of Alisa Dmitrijeva, 17, who went missing shortly after midnight on August 31 last year.

She was last spotted in a green Lexus GS800 car in the centre of King’s Lynn, about ten miles from where the body was found.

The 5ft 6in Latvian-born student was reported missing a week later by a relative.

Detectives said she often stayed with friends for several days, but previously had always remained in touch with her family while she was away.

Last month police put up a £5,000 reward for information which would help locate her.




Officers also distributed posters with her photograph and created a Facebook advert in a bid to track her down, translating it into Latvian and Lithuanian.

They also trawled through hours of CCTV images and made numerous house-to-house inquiries.

Alisa lived with her father Olegs Dmitrijeva, her sister Victoria, ten, and grandmother Lidija Nesterova, 62, in a rented semi-detached house in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

She was due to enroll on a new course at the College of West Anglia the day after she disappeared.

Yesterday her grandmother said she had been visited by police and told that the body of an unidentified young woman had been found at Sandringham.

But Mrs Nesterova continues to cling on to the hope that her granddaughter is still alive. Fighting back tears, she said: ‘Alisa is missing. Alisa is not dead.’

A neighbour, who asked not to be named, added: ‘Alisa seemed like a nice girl. I last saw her in August just before she disappeared.


Missing: Another missing East European from Cambridgeshire, 29-year-old Lithuanian Vitalija Baliutaviciene, is also a possible victim



'Once she was at home playing some “thump, thump music” which was disturbing my wife, who was poorly. I went round to ask her to turn it down.

‘To be fair to her, she said sorry and turned it down which was nice of her.

'After she went missing, I had the police round asking questions about her.’

Another neighbour, Ricardo Moreira, 32, said: ‘The police came round three times asking about her when she disappeared. I couldn’t help because I did not know her.

‘The Latvian community tend not to mix with other people in Wisbech. They just socialise in their own groups.’

Norfolk Police are waiting for a DNA profile of the victim. They are finding it hard to identify the body because it is significantly decomposed and there were no identification documents found at the scene.

Another possible victim is another East Euorpean from Cambridgeshire, 29-year-old Vitalija Baliutaviciene.

Lithuanian Ms Baliutaviciene, of Peterborough, also went missing on August 12, and has not been seen since 5am that day.

Rimas Venclovas, 46, who was extradited from Lithuania, has been charged with her kidnap and murder but no body has been found.

Detective Chief Inspector Jes Fry said: ‘We will be focusing on all local missing persons and then spread our catchment area depending on how our investigation goes.

'Part of the post-mortem will try to establish the identification through fingerprints or DNA which may help us identify who the victim is more quickly.

‘Hopefully in the next day or so we will have a good idea who we are dealing with and that may open fresh lines of inquiry.

‘I cannot confirm whether she was clothed because, at the moment, only my staff, the person who found the body and the person or people who put it there know that – and I would like it to stay that way.

‘It is very early days on the forensic side of things.

'It could be a challenging investigation.

‘We ask the public to cast their minds back to see if they can remember anything.’

Officers yesterday continued to search the area around where the body was found.

The 30ft-wide copse where the body was found sits between two fields and is 200 yards along a farm track.

It is one mile from the entrance to Sandringham House and half a mile from the Sandringham Stud where the Queen breeds racehorses.

The Royal Family are thought to have been shooting in a field of sugar beet next to the copse last week.