Following the discovery of the woman’s body close to Stockwood Park, police are not investigating the death as suspicious.
A woman who was reported missing on Monday (May 27) was located dead in the vicinity of Stockwood Park on Newlands Road in Luton.
“Her next of kin has been notified, but a formal identification has not yet occurred,” the force stated.
“The coroner has received a file, and the death is not being investigated further.”
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Tina Whittamore, a teenager from Leighton Buzzard, went for a stroll in Luton on May 31, 1971, precisely 53 years ago. The fifteen-year-old disappeared without a trace, and no sightings of her have been verified since.
The Missing Persons section of Bedfordshire Police is now looking into Tina’s disappearance and is requesting that anyone with information contact them.
There is only one old photo of Tina that the officers have. To offer an indication of what Tina could look like today, experts have aged it as best they can. That would make her 68.
1955 saw the birth of Tina King in Leighton Buzzard. Under the name Tina Whittamore, she resided in Kempston, Bedfordshire.
Tina was admitted to Grasmere Road’s Whitaker Mother and Baby Unit in 1971.
At approximately 2:30 pm on May 31, when she was last seen in Luton, she indicated she was going for a stroll but never came back.
A missing person’s complaint was filed by Thames Valley Police in September 1971 for an eighteen-year-old woman named Christine King who had vanished from High Wycombe. Tina and Christine were shown to be the same individual.
She may have lived and worked in London’s Soho and Notting Hill in the early 1970s, according to information, but there was no more information until 1990, when the Metropolitan Police believe she was in a hospital there but left before her identity could be confirmed. She lived in Holland Park and was reportedly found sleeping on the streets of Notting Hill in 1991. There haven’t been any confirmed sightings since.
At 5 feet 2 inches, Tina was characterised as having light brown hair, brown eyes, a fresh complexion, and a slight squint in her left eye. She was rumoured to wear wigs or colour her hair blonde.
Bedfordshire Police Detective Sergeant James Morgan stated: “We understand that this is a case from many years ago, but we never give up trying to find people who are reported missing.”
Cases like these are examined frequently, and if new information is sent to us, they are reopened. All we want to know is that Tina is safe.
Please have anyone with more information get in touch with Bedfordshire Police via the internet or by calling 101 and mentioning reference MPL/109/10.
