British police have confirmed the body found on Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham estate is that of Alisa Dmitrijeva, a 17-year-old student from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk who went missing last August. No other details, including the cause of death, were released.
Dmitrijeva, who moved to the U.K. from Riga, Latvia in 2009, was last seen in a green Lexus with two male friends on August 31 in Friars Street, King’s Lynn. Her grandmother reported her missing on September 6. Dmitrijeva’s body was found January 1 about 3 miles from Sandringham House, a private residence where Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrated Christmas with family. At the time, Detective Chief Inspector Jes Fry said the remains had been on the estate “for some time” and “the circumstances suggest this is a murder case.”
In a statement releases this week, Fry said investigators are gathering information from Cambridgeshire police who investigated Dmitrijeva's disappearance. "I shall now be liaising with officers from Cambridgeshire who have been working on trying to locate Alisa in recent months as a missing person," he said. "The information they provide will give me and the team an extra focus to the inquiry."
Dmitrijeva's family released a statement saying they are “devastated” by her death. "We are devastated by the news of Alisa's death. We wish to grieve in private and don't want to speak with anyone from the press at this time,” the statement said.
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