Bodies pulled from river confirmed as twins who were missing for three weeks

Two bodies pulled from the River Dee in Aberdeen have been confirmed as missing twin sisters Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, police have confirmed.

The sisters, both 32 and part of a set of triplets, vanished on January 7 in mysterious circumstances.

They were last seen walking down the street at around 2am after suddenly leaving their shared flat in the middle of the night.

CCTV footage captured them crossing the Victoria Bridge and turning on a footpath near the river, which headed towards a boat club.

Police later revealed the sisters had visited the bridge a day before their disappearance.

Supt David Howieson, of Police Scotland, said: ‘The two bodies recovered from the River Dee on Friday, 31 January, have now been formally identified as Henrietta and Eliza Huszti.

‘Inquiries remain ongoing to establish the exact cause of death however there are no apparent suspicious circumstances.’

Henrietta and Eliza went missing during a particularly cold spell in Aberdeen.

Before leaving their flat, they texted their landlady to let them know they would not be returning.

The two missing sisters had not told relatives they planned to imminently move out of their rented Aberdeen flat, and their brother said it was unusual that nobody from the family had been informed of their plans.

Police discovered the first body near Queen Elizabeth Bridge at about 07:55 on January 31.

The second body was later discovered in an area of the river close to the Victoria Bridge at about 21:05, around half a mile away from where the first was discovered.

Their brother, Jozsef, previously told the BBC: ‘They wrote a message to their landlady that they wanted to immediately end their tenancy agreement. We didn’t have any information about that.

‘So that’s the strange thing, that the girls didn’t tell us anything about that.

‘They never mentioned any such plan.’

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