Overview
- Essex Police, in a Thursday update, said private CCTV shows a person thought to be Vitoria Barreto in a Brightlingsea field at 3:33 pm on March 3.
- Investigators widened their camera review to map her route from Hurst Green at about 2:35 pm on March 3 to a boatyard at 12:16 am on March 4.
- Detectives are trying to close a 20‑minute gap before a fishing boat was unmoored at about 12:36 am, and they report the vessel drifted without its engine and a buoyancy aid was missing.
- Officers said requests for her overseas phone and bank records are in with international partners, backed by the Brazilian embassy, and no data has arrived yet.
- Large land and water searches are being wound down, her tote bag was found on March 9 and a laptop on March 14 in Brightlingsea, and friends have urged a reconstruction while a reported phone alert at sea remains unconfirmed by police.