Overview
- Essex Police opened a dedicated online portal for information as the Brightlingsea–Bradwell search entered its 14th day.
- A laptop believed to be Vitoria Barreto’s was recovered in Brightlingsea on 14 March, with her family informed and supported.
- CCTV shows a person believed to be her entering a boatyard just after midnight on 4 March, with an estimated 20-minute gap in her movements between 12:16am and 12:36am.
- Police are pursuing a coastal line of inquiry after a boat linked to the case was found drifting near Bradwell-on-Sea missing a horseshoe-shaped buoyancy aid.
- Officers continue to follow up reported sightings in Bradwell and the Dengie peninsula, having retraced the suspected route by water with her loved ones on 15 March, and urge checks of harbour CCTV and local vessels as well as 999 calls for real-time sightings; her family ask locals to display Brazilian flags.