Help us put names to the faces of mystery dead

Search continues for clues to solve age-old riddles

- BY SALLY HIND

SCOTS are being asked to help put names to the faces of mystery dead who remain unidentified decades on.

Locate International, a charity dedicated to finding missing people and naming the unidentified, made a reappeal to the public for help over a string of cases which remain unsolved.

Among them are five cases linked to Scotland, with volunteers and university students working to try and put names to four men and a woman.

Locate said: "We remember those whose names remain unknown - people who passed away without being identified.

"Let's honour them by keeping their memory alive and supporting efforts to give them back their identities."

One such is "Port Logan Woman", recovered from the high tide line on Port Logan beach, Dumfriesshire in November 2006.

She is believed to have been between 30 and 50 and to have been in the water for up to six months, so may have gone vanished in the spring or summer of 2006.

She was between 4ft 11in and 5ft 4in, with a thin build and no teeth. She may have worn dentures in life.

She was found wearing size 10 Bay Trading trousers.