AN inquest will be held into a mystery woman found dead in a stream on Penyghent more than two years ago.

And despite extensive inquiries across the globe, police have still not been able to identify the oriental woman.

Now coroner Geoff Fell will hold a hearing into her death at Skipton Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

Hikers discovered her body as they walked the popular Pennine Way near Sell Gill Pot, above Horton-in-Ribblesdale, on September 20 2004.

The post-mortem examination was unable to find an exact cause of death and expert evidence from an anthropologist, entomologist and orthodonist failed to take the inquiry much further forward.

Forensic isotope tests where the hair, bone and teeth are examined also proved inconclusive and an appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch programme brought few leads.

The dead woman was aged between 20 and 40, 4ft 11ins tall and weighed about 10 stone. She had shoulder-length dark brown hair.