liverpool · GB
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A murder investigation has been launched after a woman's body was found in a park in Liverpool on 28 August 2026. Merseyside Police were called to Stanley Park at about 17:25 BST and found the body, in a black bin bag, in bushes in part of a walled garden between the Anfield and Goodison Park grounds. The force said the body was that of a white woman in her 70s, and that it could have been in the park for a number of weeks. She was described as about 5ft 2in tall, of small build, with strawberry blonde hair, and was found wearing a cerise pink t-shirt. The description was issued by police because the victim had not yet been identified. The detective superintendent leading the investigation said the force was doing everything in its power to find whoever was responsible, and appealed to walkers who had been in the park — and specifically in the area of the walled garden — in recent days or weeks to come forward with any information. Officers kept an area inside the park cordoned off and a mobile police station was to be set up there the following day. Two weeks later the woman had still not been identified. Members of the public had supplied 73 names, all of which were checked and eliminated; it had not been possible to compare dental records, and forensic tests produced no match on the national DNA database. Officers had taken CCTV from 30 private and commercial cameras in the area and had spoken to the occupants of 625 properties around the park, and were appealing to anyone who had flown a drone over the park in recent months to check their footage. The senior investigating officer said the investigation remained ongoing and that the force remained determined to identify the woman and to find the person or persons responsible for her murder.
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- incident_date corrected from 2026-08-29 to 2026-08-28, the date the body was found, and the slug updated to match; the filename is left unchanged per the archive convention. The Independent's follow-up of 2026-09-11 states the date twice — the body 'was discovered on 28 August' and police 'were first contacted by a member of the public at around 5.25pm on 28 August'. This resolves rather than contradicts the BBC report already cited, which gives the time of the call as 'about 17:25 BST' without a date and was published at 13:31 UTC on 29 August, before 17:25 on that day had occurred; the call therefore cannot have been made on the 29th.