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[Melt71]

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Detectives are appealing for information in connection with the disappearance of a woman from Derby 15 years ago.

Izabela Helena Zablocka, who is originally from Poland, we believe had been working in the UK since 2009 and had been living in Derby at the time.

Her family back in Poland lost contact with her in August 2010 and despite their attempts to trace her, Izabela has never been found.

An investigation into the circumstances of her disappearance has now been launched.

Detectives urgently want to hear from anyone who knows Izabela and/or has any information regarding her disappearance.

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[Melt71]

Missing for 15 years: Derbyshire Police launch appeal for information over disappearance of woman in Derby​

[Extract from longer article] investigation into the circumstances of her disappearance has now been launched after a report was made earlier this week.

Detectives urgently want to hear from anyone who knew Izabela or has any information regarding her disappearance.

The police are also issuing two photos of Izabela in the hope that someone may recognise her and come forward, although a significant amount of time has passed.

 

[dalsglen]

Murder inquiry now. Two women and a man arrested.

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[Melt71]

www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/derbyshire/news/appeals/south/2025/may/murder-inquiry-launched-in-connection-with-womans-disappearance-15-years-ago/

Information relating to Izabela’s disappearance recently came to light leading detectives to launch a murder investigation.

Three people, two women aged 39 and a man aged 41, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody.

Detectives are appealing for any information relating to Izabela’s time in Derby, in particular around August 2010. She is understood to have worked at the former Cranberry Foods chicken and turkey factory in Scropton.
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A scene is in place at an address in Normanton and officers remain in the area carrying out enquiries.

 

[StillDiggin]

Human remains found
Human remains have been found as part of a murder inquiry following the disappearance of a woman last seen 15 years ago, police have said.

Derbyshire Police launched an investigation into the disappearance of Izabela Helena Zablocka, who moved to the UK from Poland in 2009, after the force received a missing persons report in May.

The force had been searching an address in Princes Street in Normanton, Derby, leading to the discovery of human remains in the garden which it believes belong to the missing woman.

Police said they had arrested four people in total on suspicion of murder.
The fourth person, a 39-year-old woman, was arrested and bailed over the course of the weekend. She has since been re-arrested, the force said.

Three others - another woman aged 39, a woman aged 43 and a 41-year-old man - remain on bail pending further inquiries.

Ms Zablocka's family in Poland lost contact with her in August 2010, and despite their attempts to trace her, she was never found, the force said.

Leading the investigation, Det Insp Kane Martin said the identification of the remains was expected to be a "lengthy process".

Human remains found in Derby in search for woman missing since 2010

Derbyshire Police believes the remains belong to Izabela Helena Zablocka who was last seen 15 years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1929635651567177780

 

[StillDiggin]

Daughter of missing mum breaks silence as body found 15 years after she vanished

THE daughter of a missing woman has broken her silence as a body was found 15 years after she vanished. Izabela Helena Zabłocka went missing in 2010, aged 30, after moving to the UK from Poland the…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Dotta]

I cannot understand that the report of the victim being missing didn't reach British Police
How is it possible?

This poor daughter
Be strong Kasia!

The woman (mother, worker) was missing,
and nobody informed Police in the UK???

Are those arrested her former housemates?
Or her distant relatives living there?
Did she visit and stay with them while deciding to go to the UK?
Who took care of the daughter later on?

Why were prisons checked?
Did she have problems with the Law?
Why would anybody think of her leaving and changing her Identity?

So many questions

JMO

 

[Melt71]

The woman (mother, worker) was missing,
and nobody informed Police in the UK???

Absolutely appalling ball-drop by the Polish police.

Until mid-2024 I worked in a job where I dealt with families lodging international MP cases on a regular basis. When Izabela's parents reported her missing to the police in Poland, Polish police should have taken a report and sent it to Interpol Warsaw. Interpol Warsaw would have entered the case in their system for the attention of Interpol offices in the UK. Interpol in the UK would have then issued a request to local police to follow up on the MP report. There would then have been a chain of communication up and down these lines of reporting, with Polish police responsible for gathering any additional information that might be needed. Polish police would also update family on the investigation. And if needed, Polish police would have gathered and submitted their DNA to iFamilia (Interpol's DNA database to compare with UIDs).

 

[Dotta]

I checked Media in my country - Poland.
It appears the case is now in headlines.

"Izabela Zabłocka left for Great Britain with the hope of a better life.
She left her nine-year-old daughter in Poland, who was looked after by her grandmother.

The Polish woman lived near Normanton and was in regular contact with her family.
In one of her last conversations,
she told her mother that she was having trouble finding work and was considering returning to Poland.

She disappeared on August 29, 2010,
the day after her conversation with her mother.
It was this date that was officially recognized as the time of her disappearance.

Over the following years,
her relatives tried unsuccessfully to interest
the British and Polish services in the case.

They claimed that the police actions were insufficient and the reports did not meet with the appropriate reaction.

It was only recently that new information came to Derbyshire detectives
that prompted them to launch a murder investigation."

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[Dotta]

Absolutely appalling ball-drop by the Polish police.

The woman was missing in the UK.

Family say the British were informed.
Quote

"Over the following years,
her relatives tried unsuccessfully to interest
the British and Polish services in the case."

Besides,
if Polish Embassy in the UK was informed
it seems obvious to me that
the Embassy informed British LE, no?

JMO

Link from Polish MSM

Wielka Brytania: Izabela z Gryfic zaginęła 15 lat temu. Jest przełom w sprawie

www-rmf24-pl.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1929893461269819686

 

[Melt71]

Besides,
if Polish Embassy in the UK was informed
it seems obvious to me that
the Embassy informed British LE, no?

I have worked for a western Embassy in this direct area of work. It's not their role to make an MP report. The process is the one I outlined above, if a family is in a different country. The Embassy absolutely maintains a welfare interest in their citizens but by law are generally restricted in how/when they can act on behalf of families.

Of course Polish law may be entirely different, so it is possible there was also a ball drop by their Embassy.

 

[Dotta]

I have worked for a western Embassy in this direct area of work. It's not their role to make an MP report. The process is the one I outlined above, if a family is in a different country. The Embassy absolutely maintains a welfare interest in their citizens but by law are generally restricted in how/when they can act on behalf of families.

Of course Polish law may be entirely different, so it is possible there was also a ball drop by their Embassy.

I'm not going to blame my country Poland for this.

She was missing in the UK.
Family say they informed the British authorities.

When a British tourist was missing in Kraków, Poland, last summer,
Police in my country were busy searching for him when his family contacted them directly.
He was found safe.

I'm not sure they had to be OFFICIALLY informed by the British LE.

Polish Police started searching immediately, because it is their JOB.
And he was missing in POLAND.

The Polish Public also helped.

There was a thread about it on Websleuths.

By the way,
did her British employer inform Police that an employee was missing??
Did her British colleagues do the same?

She vanished and NOBODY noticed????
Nobody reported her missing to local Police???

But now Poland is accused by OP.

How sad

JMO

 

[LenaOdenthal]

This is a sad case. I don't think it is totally clear at what point along the chain the ball was dropped. It seems once the local police started investigating, they found out something had happened to Izabela quite quickly.

I am wondering if they did have something on file about her at the time, even though inquiries from Poland don't seem to have reached them until recently. Could an employer or landlord have reported her missing at the time if she stopped showing up for work or paying rent? But those enquiries wouldn't have gone anywhere if they thought it was likely she had simply left and gone back to Poland or somewhere else.

 

[Dotta]

From Polish MSM

"We set off on the trail of Izabela Zabłocka.​

A breakthrough in Great Britain.​

Today,
Mrs. Katarzyna is an adult woman.
And the only link that connects the past with the present.

'My mother was homosexual and it was obvious to us.
It was not a secret, whether in the family or in the environment.
She went to England with her partner.
I find it hard to believe that she deliberately did not give any sign of life',
says Katarzyna Zabłocka,
the daughter of the missing Mrs. Izabela.

'We came with the intention of earning money,
she was supposed to go for an operation because I said I didn't want to live with a girl.
There were plans to change sex.
She was jealous,
even five minutes late getting home because of the traffic jams',
says the former partner of the missing Izabela.

Asked if there were any fights during the argument, she replies that
'maybe there was something there'.

'In England, unfortunately,
her life got a bit more complicated.
Ms. Izabela's partner left her at some point for a man',
says O. H., a crime podcaster.

'At one point she called home that she wanted to return to Poland
because her financial situation was becoming more and more fragile',
says M.P, a crime podcaster.

'She told my grandmother to take care of me',
adds Katarzyna Zabłocka."

Much more in the link
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Ruszyliśmy tropem Izabeli Zabłockiej. Przełom w Wielkiej Brytanii - Interwencja

Izabela Zabłocka zniknęła bez śladu w Wielkiej Brytanii. Jej córka twierdzi, że przez niemal 15 lat śledczy nie zrobili nic, aby wyjaśnić tajemnicę tego zaginięcia. Do Anglii poleciał nasz reporter. Zaraz po tym, w sprawie nastąpił długo wyczekiwany przełom, a w poniedziałek brytyjska policja...

interwencja.polsatnews.pl

 

[Dotta]

This is a sad case. I don't think it is totally clear at what point along the chain the ball was dropped. It seems once the local police started investigating, they found out something had happened to Izabela quite quickly.

I am wondering if they did have something on file about her at the time, even though inquiries from Poland don't seem to have reached them until recently. Could an employer or landlord have reported her missing at the time if she stopped showing up for work or paying rent? But those enquiries wouldn't have gone anywhere if they thought it was likely she had simply left and gone back to Poland or somewhere else.

Polish MSM says:

"Ms Izabela's relatives notified the Polish police about her disappearance.

They asked the Derby police for help in searching for her.

According to the relatives of the missing woman,
for the next fifteen years,
practically nothing happened in the case.

However,
there were rumours that Ms Izabela was wandering around the area as a homeless person.

'The police checked whether my mother had not crossed the border using the ID card she had used to travel to the UK.

And she had not...

That's all we learned from the Polish police.

The British police did not take any action'
emphasizes Katarzyna Zabłocka."

Ruszyliśmy tropem Izabeli Zabłockiej. Przełom w Wielkiej Brytanii - Interwencja

Izabela Zabłocka zniknęła bez śladu w Wielkiej Brytanii. Jej córka twierdzi, że przez niemal 15 lat śledczy nie zrobili nic, aby wyjaśnić tajemnicę tego zaginięcia. Do Anglii poleciał nasz reporter. Zaraz po tym, w sprawie nastąpił długo wyczekiwany przełom, a w poniedziałek brytyjska policja...

interwencja.polsatnews.pl

 

[LenaOdenthal]

Derby police refused to speak to us on camera. However, a few days after our visit, there was an unexpected breakthrough. Almost fifteen years after her disappearance, the British police decided to open an investigation into Izabela's murder.

From Dotta's link - it sounds like this journalist's visit to Derby police was itself the trigger for the new investigation? Or did the journalist go there because there had already been developments?

 

[Dotta]

From Derbyshire Constabulary​

"Arrests update: ​

Izabela Zablocka murder investigation.​

Detectives have been given more time to question a woman who was arrested in connection with the Izabela Zablocka murder inquiry.

A 39-year-old woman was re-arrested, on suspicion of murder, on Monday (2 June) following the discovery of human remains in the garden of an address in Princes Street, Normanton.

She had initially been arrested on 24 May and subsequently released on bail.

A further person, a 48-year-old man, was also arrested on suspicion of murder on Monday. He has since been released on bail pending further enquiries."

https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/derbyshire/news/appeals/south/2025/june/arrests-update-izabela-zablocka-murder-investigation/

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930243306392277040

When Izabela Zablocka disappeared suddenly and out of character,
her family contacted police in Derbyshire who began a missing person enquiry.

But despite talking to her friends in the local Polish community and colleagues at Cranberry Foods Turkey and Chicken Factory in the nearby village of Scropton
the trail went cold.

And that remained the investigation's status until last week when,
acting on fresh information,
Derbyshire Police began searching the back garden of her former home.

Back home in the small town of Gryfice in northwest Poland,
the daughter she left behind – Katarzyna – is now in her mid-twenties.

And it is understood that she has been the driving force behind
police re-opening the case
into her mother's disappearance.

Speaking to a Polish TV documentary earlier this week
Katarzyna described how her mother had had a stormy relationship with her female partner in the UK."