Vigil Held in Essex for Missing Brazilian Psychologist as Search Shifts From Ground to Data

Overview

• Friends and family gathered in Hurst Green, Brightlingsea, on March 22 for a prayer vigil that also urged authorities and financial institutions to maintain momentum in the case.
• Essex Police said physical searches are largely concluding and confirmed that investigative work is continuing through other lines of inquiry.
• The Tribunal de Justiça do Ceará authorized measures to break banking and telephone secrecy, and the family is asking C6 and Nubank to release transaction and account details.
• Police say the last verified footage shows Vitória Figueiredo Barreto at Brightlingsea marina at 00:16 on March 4, with searches focused on Brightlingsea, Bradwell-on-Sea and the Dengie peninsula.
• Items including her backpack and laptop were recovered, and investigators have examined a possible boat link after a vessel was found adrift near Bradwell-on-Sea the next day.