The key to solving the murder of a mystery woman found headless in Norfolk in the 1970s could be found in Dundee.

A trail of the murder case has led Norfolk Police to the city to enlist the help of a group of forensic psychology students.

Known as Operation Monton, the case dates back to the discovery of a headless body in 1974.

Despite DNA samples being taken from her body after it was exhumed in 2008, her identity remains a mystery.

When it was discovered, her body was found wrapped in a National Cash Registers' plastic sheet, was clothed in a pink Marks and Spencer's nightdress and was badly decomposed.

Her hands were bound with an unusual piece of rope and Dundee has been identified as the only place in the world it was manufactured.

The firm that made the rope went out of business many years ago and detailed police records do not date back as far as 1974.

Police Scotland believe a clue to the woman's identity may lie within the pages of local newspaper reports of the time, however, and have called on the Abertay University students to help.

They are to scour media archives from January 1973 to January 1975 to find any women reported missing at that time, or any other murders which may have a connection with the case.