THE thriller surrounding lacking Brit Charlotte Peet has deepened after three new photos have emerged of the journalist alive and properly.
Brazilian police launched two photographs that are mentioned to point out the 32-year-old taking a selfie on a bus to Rio de Janeiro and in addition to a 3rd of her sitting at a bar bear Copacabana seashore.
The bus selfies seem to have been taken on the day she first went missing on February 8, in accordance with Brazilian media outlet Globo.
Police have been initially not sure if Charlotte ever boarded a bus regardless of footage reportedly exhibiting her on the metropolis’s Tiete Bus Terminal.
Investigators additionally confirmed that she bought a ticket from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro however by no means used it.
The third picture of Charlotte is reportedly from February 15.
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Police sources have beforehand informed Brazilian media Charlotte arrived in Rio at night time on February 8 earlier than staying at a hostel in Copacabana till February 17.
She is then believed to have travelled to a different hostel within the neighbourhood of Botafogo up till Monday.
Detectives are mentioned to have been in a position to achieve entry to pictures on the Brit’s cell phone, in accordance with native media.
It’s unclear the place she could also be now however Rio cops now consider she “disappeared voluntarily”.
Police all the time maintained that it was attainable Charlotte may have voluntarily lower off contact along with her family members.
It’s now unclear if officers will be capable to use GPS location information from the cellphone to assist with their search.
It comes after police spent weeks looking for any signal of the profitable reporter.
Her phone was still active as of final Friday however all of her calls had been going unanswered, in accordance with Brazilian cops.
Investigators additionally made a number of makes an attempt to ring the Brit’s system however have been unable to come up with her.
This led authorities to increase the search, checking hospitals and morgues in each Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
One other space that was being appeared into concerned her remaining publish on-line.
Simply 4 days earlier than her disappearance, Charlotte posted a message in a Facebook group.
The publish noticed her searching for a double room in London — suggesting she might have been contemplating returning house.
She wrote: “Good day. I am searching for a double room in South West/East London: East Dulwich, Brixton, Herne Hill, Clapham, Balham, Streatham, Camberwell and many others or would contemplate venturing east to the precise place.
“I am a 32-year-old journalist, pleasant, respectful and organised. I like studying, holding energetic and chatting to pals.
“Let me know if I sound like an excellent match! Thanks!”
Peet, who has been working as a journalist in Brazil since 2020, briefly returned to London on the finish of 2023 after her household expressed issues about what they described as her “occasion life” in Brazil.
However she determined to return to the nation in November.